Simulation analysis of airborne VLF Wire Antennas based on FEM

Author

Chen, Jiajia ; Su, Donglin ; Liu, Yan ; Wu, Nankai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

2276

Lastpage

2279

Abstract

Trailing Wire Antenna on aircraft is used to transmit VLF/LF messages to submarines. It has two types including Single Trailing Wire Antenna(STWA) and Dual Trailing Wire Antenna(DTWA). STWA is a long wire which is half of wavelength; DTWA consists of a short wire and a long wire, and the total length of DTWA is half of wavelength. Both of two antennas are about more than 5000 meters. This paper presents a method of establishing such large models of airborne VLF single/dual trailing antenna systems. Then discuss and compare two antennas´ different EM radiation characteristics and impedances based on simulation results. The results of the calculations suggest that the performance of DTWA is better than STWA. And DTWA is more suitable to carry high-power transmitter and transmit messages to a long distance.

Keywords

aircraft antennas; antenna radiation patterns; finite element analysis; radio transmitters; underwater acoustic communication; underwater vehicles; wire antennas; EM radiation; FEM; VLF/LF message transmission; airborne VLF wire antennas; aircraft; dual trailing wire antenna; high-power transmitter; single trailing wire antenna; submarines; very low frequency; Aircraft; Antenna radiation patterns; Atmospheric modeling; Transmitting antennas; Wires; Airborne; STWA/DTWA; modeling; radiation characteristics; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhejiang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECC.2011.6067852

Filename

6067852