ABSTRACT
This chapter presents research centering on investigation of the effects of the propagating lightning electromagnetic phenomena on anisotropic gaseous continua of helium located at some distance from the impact area of lightning surge. Calculations in cylindrical coordinates for the effects of electromagnetic interaction between the propagated electromagnetic field generated by lightning and the gaseous continuum resulted in solutions for the ionic as well as breakdown conditions of the gaseous continuum. The spectral scope for the accelerating fields generated by the convective current of lightning surge on an anisotropic gaseous continuum is investigated. At the anisotropic gaseous continuum, solutions have been secured for the originated modes of acceleration imposed on the singly and doubly ionized particles, electrons as well as neutrals in terms of their physical and chemical properties and the tensorial elements of their electrical conductivities. In the dielectric gaseous continuum, potential breakdown corresponds to an infinite current density along any or more than one dimensional flow.
