Masters' Thesis

Numerical simulation of the lightning swept stroke for zoning unconventional aircraft.

For my masters' thesis, I developed a physics-based model for the 'swept-stroke' phase of lightning strikes on aircraft under the supervision of Prof. Guerra-Garcia in the MIT Aerospace Plasma Group. The work is summarised in my master's thesis and published in several papers which will be linked below as they are released publicly.

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Publications and Presentations

▸ Click here to download my master's thesis.

▸ This work was presented at the International Conference On Lightning and Static Electricity (ICOLSE) in Campinas, Brazil in September 2024. The associated paper is available at zenodo.org/records/13838314

▸ This work was presented at the SAE AE-2 Comittee Meeting in Cape Canaveral, Florida in October 2024.

▸ Jenkins N A, Guerra-Garcia C. Numerical Simulation of the Lightning Swept Stroke: Application to the Results from the NASA Storm Hazards Program. IEEE Access. (Early Access) December 2024. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3515833

More publications related to this work are currently under review and will be released soon.

Please cite this project:
Jenkins, N. (2023). Numerical Simulation of the Lightning Swept Stroke for the Zoning of Unconventional Aircraft. [Master's Thesis.] Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Available at: http://nathanaelj.github.io/Projects/FYP [Accessed: ]