Modern electromagnetic simulation tools applied to On-aircraft Antenna Integration

Modern civil and military aircraft have an increasing amount of radiofrequency systems and antennas on board. This increasing complexity poses critical design issues related to the integration and compatibility of the referred systems. One of such issues is Antenna Integration. Erroneous sitting of antennas usually results in serious time and cost implications for an aircraft program, hence the importance of incorporating modern and efficient Antenna Integration methodologies from the early stages of the aircraft design. Nowadays, the combination of the most recent numerical electromagnetic methods with the capability of the new supercomputers has made possible to develop a powerful methodology in Airbus Military for On-aircraft Antenna Integration.