Design and Simulation of Elliptic Aperture Array with Low Side Lobes on Airplane

Antenna arrays with circular and elliptic apertures are designed to obtain low side lobes according to the Taylor synthesis method. To accurately and efficiently analyze the radiation patterns of the arrays, the parallel higher-order method of moments (MoM) is used. Numerical results show that the side-lobe levels achieve the design parameters. Furthermore, the elliptic aperture array is installed on a full-scale airplane, and the effects of the airplane on the array radiation patterns are analyzed.