Title :
Accurate numerical modeling of the TARA reflector system
Author :
Rius, J.M. ; Heldring, A. ; Ligthart, L.P. ; Cardama, A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
fDate :
31 March-3 April 2003
Abstract :
The Transportable Atmospheric RAdar system (TARA) project financed by the Netherlands Technology Foundation constitutes the design and construction of a mobile measurement facility incorporating the latest developments in antenna and FM-CW technology. The purpose of the measuring facility is the study of atmospheric phenomena such as clouds, precipitation and clear air turbulence. We present a multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) implementation with a new preconditioning scheme that allows to simulate the non-symmetrical TARA reflectors with half a million unknowns on a desktop computer.
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; antenna testing; atmospheric measuring apparatus; radar antennas; radar applications; reflector antennas; FM-CW technology; Netherlands Technology Foundation; TARA reflector system; accurate numerical modeling; antenna technology; atmospheric phenomena; clear air turbulence; clouds; desktop computer; mobile measurement facility; multilevel fast multipole algorithm; nonsymmetrical TARA reflectors; precipitation; preconditioning; radiation pattern calculations; simulation; transportable atmospheric radar system;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation, 2003. (ICAP 2003). Twelfth International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 491)
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-752-7
DOI :
10.1049/cp:20030109
