Title :
Rigorous analysis of a satellite antenna including its surrounding environment with the Dual-Grid FDTD method
Author :
Le Lepvrier, B. ; Loison, R. ; Gillard, R. ; Patier, L. ; Potier, P. ; Pouliguen, P.
Author_Institution :
IETR, Univ. Eur. de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Abstract :
This paper presents a rigorous analysis of a satellite antenna mounted onto its platform using the Dual-Grid FDTD method. In the first step of the method, the isolated antenna is analyzed. The study of the surrounded antenna is carried out in the second step of the DG-FDTD method. The results obtained in this realistic test case show the significant influence of the environment over the antenna.
Keywords :
finite difference time-domain analysis; satellite antennas; dual-grid FDTD method; finite difference time domain method; isolated antenna; rigorous analysis; satellite antenna; surrounding environment; Computational modeling; Finite difference methods; Satellite antennas; Satellites; Time domain analysis; DG-FDTD; FDTD method; Multi-scale simulation; surrounded antenna;
Conference_Titel :
Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2012 15th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0290-6
DOI :
10.1109/ANTEM.2012.6262321
