“…The power per cell is a Correspondence to: Yoshihiro Baba. E-mail: ybaba@mail.doshisha.ac.jp *Doshisha University, Kyotanabe Kyoto, 610-0394, Japan **Otowa Electric Co., ltd., Hyogo, 661-0976, Japan computed from the instantaneous values of injected current density and resultant electric field, the latter of which is obtained with the approximate mathematical expression of the nonlinear relation between conduction current density and electric field [7,8]. Since no numerical computation method for solving Maxwell's equations is used to find the transient current distribution in the MOV, the present computation is efficient in comparison with those of [2,3].…”