SuperNEC: antenna and indoor-propagation simulation program

Author

Fourie, André ; Nitch, Derek

Author_Institution

Poynting Software Pty Ltd., Wits, South Africa

Volume

42

Issue

3

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

48

Abstract

SuperNEC is a hybrid MoM-UTD antenna and electromagnetic simulation program, developed by Poynting Software (Pty) Ltd. The UTD primitives available in the code are dielectrically coated, multi-faceted plates and elliptical cylinders. The MoM primitives supported are wire segments. The program is capable of running in parallel on a heterogeneous network of processors. A Matlab-based, interactive graphical user interface is used to define the geometry to be simulated, as well as to view the simulation results. The program has been extensively verified using a multitude of test cases, which include comparison to published results and measurements

Keywords

UHF antennas; UHF radio propagation; VHF antennas; VHF radio propagation; antenna radiation patterns; digital simulation; geometrical theory of diffraction; graphical user interfaces; indoor radio; method of moments; monopole antennas; 127 to 400 MHz; Matlab-based interactive graphical user interface; Poynting Software (Pty) Ltd; SuperNEC; dielectrically coated multi-faceted plates; elliptical cylinders; heterogeneous network; hybrid MoM-UTD antenna and electromagnetic simulation program; indoor-propagation simulation program; wire segments; Antennas and propagation; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic propagation; Engine cylinders; Graphical user interfaces; Message-oriented middleware; Object oriented modeling; Physical theory of diffraction; Solid modeling; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9243

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/74.848946

Filename

848946