An FETD approach for the modeling of antennas

Author

Geuzaine, Christophe ; Meys, Benoît ; Beauvois, Véronique ; Legros, Willy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Liege Univ., Belgium

Volume

36

Issue

4

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

892

Lastpage

896

Abstract

In this paper an implicit Finite Element Time Domain (FETD) method is applied to the computation of the electromagnetic fields emitted by a commercial broadband log periodic antenna. The method is based on a Whitney edge finite element scheme for the space discretization together with a Newmark algorithm and a Krylov solver for the time integration. Global antenna performances are deduced thanks to a discrete Fourier transform and a boundary element extrapolation, and are compared with experimental data

Keywords

antenna theory; boundary-elements methods; discrete Fourier transforms; electromagnetic fields; finite element analysis; log periodic antennas; time-domain analysis; FETD approach; Krylov solver; Newmark algorithm; Whitney edge finite element scheme; antenna modeling; boundary element extrapolation; broadband log periodic antenna; discrete Fourier transform; electromagnetic fields; finite element time domain method; global antenna performances; space discretization; time integration; Discrete Fourier transforms; Electromagnetic fields; Finite difference methods; Finite element methods; Industrial training; Iterative algorithms; Log periodic antennas; Maxwell equations; Time domain analysis; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.877587

Filename

877587