Transient Simulation of Lightning Wave on Transmission Line

Lightning is the main reason to cause line tripping and service interruption, and its surge wave invaded into substation over the line is also the key factor which impact on the safe operation of equipments. Research on over-voltage transmission of lightning will be benefit to measure the lightning interference impact on energy metering equipments. Analyzing the transient process of the transmission line must adopt the telegraph equations. In this paper, the partial differential equations were discrete with the FDTD method. Then the equivalent power source of lightning is added at the starting point and the purely resistive load is added at the terminal. Finally, the transient propagation process of lighting was simulated in MATLAB. The three type of lossless non-uniform, lossy uniform or non-uniform transmission lines were considered.