Abstract
A technique is presented to efficiently solve for the currents on appendage, e.g., antenna, attached to a planar surface of a conducting body. The appendage may be embedded in a homogeneous, dielectric material. The technique presented alleviates the complications associated with the point where the appendage is attached to the body. To illustrate the method, a wire antenna attached to an axisymmetric body is analyzed in detail. A set of coupled integral equations are formulated, appropriate quantities are expanded into Fourier modes, and coupled integral equations are derived for the Fourier coefficients of the unknowns. These equations are solved and the input admittance of the wire antenna is determined from the computed currents and is corroborated by measurements.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2985-2994 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - Sep 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received May 13, 2002; revised March 19, 2003. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Army Research Office under Grant DAAH04-96-0198 and in part by the National Science Foundation through a Graduate Fellowship.
Keywords
- Electromagnetic modeling
- Electromagnetic theory
- Equivalence principle
- Integral equations
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering