Title :
Analysis of antenna interactions using the INSTANT software
Author :
Arter, Wayne ; Kirby, Peter ; Smith, John K R ; Simpson, James L.
Author_Institution :
Culham Electromagn. & Lighting Ltd., Abingdon, UK
Abstract :
INSTANT (short for INSTalled ANTenna performance) is a ray-tracing software suite that accurately predicts antenna behaviour, including antenna-antenna interactions, in the presence of conducting bodies, such as aircraft, ships and land vehicles. Special features of INSTANT are its direct use of a NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) representation to model surfaces and its employment of computer graphics techniques to treat the consequent ray intersections with bodies in a reliable, accurate and efficient manner
Keywords :
aircraft; antennas; computer graphics; conducting bodies; electrical engineering computing; ray tracing; ships; software packages; splines (mathematics); INSTANT software; aircraft; antenna behaviour prediction; antenna interactions analysis; computer graphics techniques; conducting bodies; installed antenna performance; land vehicles; nonuniform rational B-spline; ray intersections; ray-tracing software suite; ships; software packages;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation, 2001. Eleventh International Conference on (IEE Conf. Publ. No. 480)
Conference_Location :
Manchester
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-733-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:20010389
