Numerical analysis of transient performance of grounding systems considering soil ionization by coupling moment method with circuit theory

Soil ionization has a great effect on the performance of grounding electrodes fed by currents of high magnitude. In this paper, a numerical method is proposed to analyze the transient performance of grounding system, which takes account of the dynamic and nonlinear effects of soil ionization. The method couples moment method with circuit theory and Fourier transform. The transient performance of grounding system considering the soil ionization effect is compared with that not considering soil ionization effect.