Multiwall Radome Analysis Program

Abstract

This report describes a computer analysis tool for calculating the electrical transmission and reflection properties of a multiwall radome. The radome program may be used with a suitable antenna program to estimate the effects of the radome on the antenna pattern. The analysis tool is comprised of two programs, a radome-geometry program, RADOME, and a flat-panel analysis program, WAVES2. The geometry program calculates the incidence angle for each ray (a ray represents the radiated RF power from each antenna element) at the radome wall. The output data from the geometry program, RADOME, serves as input to the flat-panel program. The flat-panel program then calculates the electrical transmission and reflection parameters of the radome for each ray. These parameters may then be used with a suitable free-space antenna pattern simulation program, and the resultant antenna pattern in the presence of the radome can be computed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA023480

Entities

People

  • Robert M. Blumgold

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Antenna Apertures
  • Antenna Arrays
  • Antennas
  • Arrays
  • Boresights
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Core Storage
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Geometry
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Radio Frequency Power
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space