THE RESEARCH OF DISTRIBUTED LIGHTNING PROTECTION OF THE SPACE-LAUNCH COMPLEX ON THE BASIS OF SIMULATION EXPERIMENT
The paper presents the results of computational experiments determining the characteristics of electrostatic fields of the objects, located between thunderclouds and the ground. The outer boundary-value problem is reduced to the inner boundary-value problem. Distributed object ?0 as a carrier rocket and lightning terminations is considered. Therewith, the method calculating electrostatic field of the object ?0 in the area under study on the basis of determining specified distribution of the flow function lines (FFL) or the lines of electrostatic force is presented. In the contribution the dependencies between values of specified FFL distribution and different distances from the carrier rocket to the lightning terminations are determined. On the basis of the received nonlinear dependencies, namely their extreme values, the effectiveness of a lightning interception by different lightning protection schemes is estimated. The results of computational experiments, their comparative analysis with existing data are presented.