Analysis of Radiation from a Traveling-Wave Current and Comparison with the Standing-Wave Sinusoidal Current Filament

Author

Miller, Edmund K.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Lincoln, CA

Volume

48

Issue

5

fYear

2006

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

53

Abstract

The traveling-wave current (TWC) has served as one kind of "canonical" current distribution for simulating the behavior of a wire antenna, as has the standing-wave, sinusoidal current filament (SCF). Besides yielding closed-form solutions for their far-field patterns and radiated powers, the sinusoidal current filament and traveling-wave current can approximate the current on a wire antenna that is appropriately excited. The traveling-wave current\´s power distributions, as obtained using the induced EMF method and the FARS (far-field analysis of radiation sources) method, together with similar results for the sinusoidal current filament, are discussed in this brief note

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; current distribution; wire antennas; FARS method; canonical current distribution; far-field analysis of radiation sources method; far-field patterns; induced EMF method; radiated powers; standing-wave sinusoidal current filament; traveling-wave current radiation; wire antenna; Closed-form solution; Current distribution; Dipole antennas; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic radiation; Laboratories; Load flow; Power distribution; Wire; Electromagnetic fields; Poynting vector; dipole antennas; electromagnetic forces; electromagnetic radiation; far-field analysis of radiation sources; induced electromotive force; radiation pattern;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9243

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAP.2006.277155

Filename

4056305