Numerically Efficient Methods For Electromagnetic Modeling Of Antenna Radiation And Scattering Problems

Keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; Antenna theory; CBFM; Characteristic basis function method; Computational electromagnetics; Dipole moment; Edge-port; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic wave propagation; Electromagnetic wave scattering; Galerkin method; IEDG; Integral equation discontinuous-galerkin technique; Integral equations; Integral equations (numerical analysis); Large complex antenna problems; Method of moments; Microwave circuit; Near-field contents; Numerical techniques; Plane wave excitation; Radar cross section; RCS; Single antennas

Abstract

We describe several numerical techniques for electromagnetic modeling of large and complex antenna problems, which require a large number of DoFs to describe them, and hence, they are CPU time- and memory-intensive when conventional methods are used to tackle them. We describe the characteristic basis function method (CBFM) as well as the integral equation discontinuous-Galerkin technique (IEDG) for the handling of these type of problems numerically efficiently. The details of the formulations are presented and numerical examples given to validate them. For many practical applications, not only the antenna problems are of interest when they operate in either transmit or receive mode, but also when we need to design them to have a low RCS, as is frequently the case in practice. We point out that the methods described in this work are quite general and are well suited for all of these cases. Furthermore, they can be used to model antennas with arbitrary material properties, be they lossy or lossless. We also present three types of sources as excitations for generating the CBFMs for the microwave circuit and antenna problems, as opposed to RCS. We conclude that the near-field contents of the edge-port and dipole moment excitations can enhance the accuracy of the CBFM over the plane wave excitation.

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

Developments in Antenna Analysis and Design: Volume 2

Number of Pages

213-258

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1049/SBEW543G_ch7

Socpus ID

85080680003 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85080680003

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS