• DocumentCode
    3400298
  • Title

    Analysis of small antennas in MWD tools using unconditionally stable FDTD method in cylindrical coordinates

  • Author

    Wu, D. ; Yang, F. ; Chen, J. ; Liu, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Houston Univ., TX, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    4-7 Dec. 2005
  • Abstract
    In this paper, unconditionally stable finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in cylindrical system is developed to analyze signal transmission/reception from electrically small antennas under measurement-while-drilling (MWD) environment. Crank-Nicholson scheme is applied in FDTD method to overcome the stability condition imposed by the Courant limit, hence improving the computational efficiency. Numerical examples are used to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.
  • Keywords
    antennas; finite difference time-domain analysis; Courant limit; Crank-Nicholson scheme; finite-difference time-domain; measurement-while-drilling environment; signal reception; signal transmission; small antennas; unconditionally stable FDTD method; Antenna measurements; Computational efficiency; Electric variables measurement; Finite difference methods; Finite wordlength effects; Maxwell equations; Signal analysis; Stability; Time domain analysis; Transmitting antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference Proceedings, 2005. APMC 2005. Asia-Pacific Conference Proceedings
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9433-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APMC.2005.1606173
  • Filename
    1606173