Planar Array Antenna Design Analysis. Volume 1

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a computer program that can assess the impact of small design perturbations on the performance of a planar array antenna. The antenna designer can compare theoretical design calculations for an array with those of the perturbed array. Considerable work was spent validating each routine to ensure theoretical and expected results agreed with known examples found in the literature. The program calculates radiation pattern dat, half-power beamwidths, and directivities for specified scan angles and frequency bandwidth for both the design array and expected array. The radiation pattern data can be plotted to allow a side lobe comparison between the design and expected arrays. (jes)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA215537

Entities

People

  • Bradley P. Chrisman

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Antenna Radiation Patterns
  • Antennas
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Dipole Antennas
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Far Field
  • Planar Array Antennas
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Random Variables
  • Two Dimensional
  • Word Processors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Systems Analysis and Design