Modelling the effects of realistic environments in the nearfield and farfield of Low Frequency Antennas with 3D FDTD method

Author

Vincent, Julien ; Borderies, P. ; Gobin, V. ; Poirier, Jean-Rene

Author_Institution

Electromagn. & Radar Dept., ONERA, Toulouse, France

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Ground wave radiation of Low Frequency Antennas is well known for the canonical case of a flat, azimuthally homogeneous, soil. In this paper, more complex kinds of environment are considered in the surroundings of the antenna or in the far field. Both of them are treated by FDTD. Some realistic environments are studied in the near field zone including forest and slopes. An original methodology is proposed for the far field zone. It rests on the use of the direct numerical integration of Sommerfeld´s integrals which is presented also.

Keywords

antennas; finite difference time-domain analysis; 3D FDTD method; Sommerfeld integrals; azimuthally homogeneous soil; farfield; forest; ground wave radiation; low frequency antennas; nearfield; realistic environments; Antenna radiation patterns; Finite difference methods; Soil; Three-dimensional displays; Time-domain analysis; FDTD; Sommerfeld´s problem; ground wave; low frequency antennas; natural environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Electromagnetic Modeling and Optimization for RF, Microwave, and Terahertz Applications (NEMO), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pavia

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEMO.2014.6995711

Filename

6995711