Exact modeling and fast computation for the radiation characteristics of antenna array-radome structure

Author

Zheng, Ying ; Xu, Xiaowen ; Hu, Bing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

2-5 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

277

Abstract

The exact model of an antenna array with a dielectric radome is established by using the surface integral equations and method of moments (SIE-MoM). The proper preconditioning techniques (PT) and the fast multipole method are employed, which obviously improves the property of the MoM matrix equation, reduces the memory occupation and accelerate the iteration convergence of the conjugate gradient (CG) method. Based on the validation of the correctness of the algorithm, some wire antenna arrays with dielectric radomes are numerically simulated, and their radiation characteristics are analyzed.

Keywords

antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; conjugate gradient methods; dielectric devices; integral equations; matrix algebra; method of moments; radomes; wire antennas; MoM matrix equation; antenna array-radome structure; conjugate gradient method; dielectric radome; method of moments; preconditioning techniques; radiation characteristics; surface integral equations; wire antenna arrays; Acceleration; Analytical models; Antenna arrays; Character generation; Computational modeling; Convergence; Dielectrics; Integral equations; Moment methods; Wire; FMM; PCG; Radome; SIE-MoM;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation and EM Theory, 2008. ISAPE 2008. 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2192-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2193-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2008.4735197

Filename

4735197