Transmission line model for meander antennas

Nowadays valuable and efficient numerical methods allow an empirical approach in the design of antennas for high-frequency wireless communication systems. Generally these numerical techniques apply either time- or frequency-domain algorithms demanding high computational efforts and long-time processing. Moreover, the initially assumed geometrical configuration can strongly affect the numerical convergence efficiency. With reference to a meander antenna, this paper highlights the computational improvement achievable by applying a transmission line model to the definition of an initial geometry, to be numerically optimized, the sizes of which are nearly to the final ones.