Integrating antenna modeling codes in Web-based visualization environments

Author

Kostaridis, Antonis I. ; Biniaris, Christos G. ; Marsh, Andy J. ; Anastassiu, Hristos T. ; Kaklamani, Dimitra I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

45

Issue

4

fYear

2003

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

18

Abstract

The development of an interactive online asynchronous environment for advanced antenna modeling is presented. Electromagnetic (EM) codes are coupled with the World Wide Web (WWW), and the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is used for the creation of a flexible visual pre- and post-processor. The adoption of object-oriented methodologies, in conjunction with the employment of platform independent standards, contributes to the flexibility of the developed application. It is generic enough so that various numerical codes for antenna modeling can be easily integrated under a common multi-disciplinary environment. A case study regarding the modeling of conformal microstrip arrays is presented.

Keywords

Internet; computational electromagnetics; conformal antennas; electrical engineering computing; microstrip antenna arrays; object-oriented methods; virtual reality languages; EM codes; VRML; Virtual Reality Modeling Language; WWW; Web-based visualization environments; World Wide Web; antenna modeling codes; conformal microstrip arrays; electromagnetic codes; interactive online asynchronous environment; numerical codes; object-oriented methodologies; platform independent standards; visual post-processor; visual pret-processor; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic modeling; Employment; Microstrip antenna arrays; Object oriented modeling; Standards development; Virtual reality; Visualization; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9243

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAP.2003.1241306

Filename

1241306