Electromagnetic Launch Vehicle Fairing and Acoustic Blanket Model of Received Power using FEKO

    Authors

    D. H. Trout; J. E. Stanley;P. F. Wahid

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Comput. Electromagn. Soc. J.

    Keywords

    FEKO; MLFMM; Nicholson Ross Weir; resonant cavity; BODIES; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications

    Abstract

    Evaluating the impact of radio frequency transmission in vehicle fairings is important to electromagnetically sensitive spacecraft. This study employs the multilevel fast multipole method (MLFMM) from a commercial electromagnetic tool, FEKO, to model the fairing electromagnetic environment in the presence of an internal transmitter with improved accuracy over industry applied techniques. This fairing model includes material properties representative of acoustic blanketing commonly used in vehicles. Equivalent surface material models within FEKO were successfully applied to simulate the test case. Finally, a simplified model is presented using the Nicholson Ross Weir derived blanket material properties. These properties are implemented with the coated metal option to reduce the model to one layer within the accuracy of the original three layer simulation.

    Journal Title

    Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

    Volume

    26

    Issue/Number

    12

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    973

    Last Page

    980

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000301007900003

    ISSN

    1054-4887

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