• DocumentCode
    522137
  • Title

    Simulation of large circular antenna arrays using the Array Scanning Method

  • Author

    Sarkis, R. ; Craeye, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Ecole Polytech. de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    12-16 April 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present a numerical method for the simulation of large circular antenna arrays using the Array Scanning Method (ASM) applied with the method of moments to reduce the mathematical problem from an (N⋆M)x(N⋆M) system to N (MxM) systems where N is the number of elements in the array and M is the number of basis functions in the antenna mesh. A link will be established between the ASM and DFT-based methods for circulant matrices. This technique will be applied to study the resonance modes of a circular array made of 90 dipoles, and we will use it to study a circular array of connected wideband tapered-slot antennas.
  • Keywords
    Antenna arrays; Broadband antennas; Current distribution; Dipole antennas; Discrete Fourier transforms; Equations; Moment methods; Phased arrays; Resonance; Transmission line matrix methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6431-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-84-7653-472-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5505304