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November 2012
Jia Lei
Ming Yongjin
Cao Qunsheng
(College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Nanjing 210016, China)
Abstract In this paper, the Geometric Optics (GO) method using the approximate ray paths coupled with the Computer Aided Tri-dimensional Interface Application (CATIA) meshing modeling are
implemented to analyze the performance of electric large three-dimensional dielectric radome-enclosed
antenna of arbitrary contour shape. The surfaces of the radome are approximated by planar triangular
patches, the influences of various number of patches on power transmission coefficient and Insertion
Phase Delay (IPD) via an ogive and a conical radome are discussed by the hybrid method. The
simulation results indicate that computational error from planar triangular patches can limit in one
percent, meeting the engineering application requirements.
Key words Geometric Optics (GO); Computer Aided Tri-dimensional Interface Application
(CATIA); Radome; Power transmission coefficient; Insertion Phase Delay (IPD)
CLC index
TN82
DOI 10.1007/s11767-012-0885-9
I. Introduction
Radome is defined as a housing that protects
the antenna from environmental conditions such as
storm, dust, rain, lighting, static electricity,
burning sun and so on. In practice, the antenna
radome effects can be observed experimentally
because the basic electrical properties of the radome wall differ markedly from those of air. The
general effects of the antenna radome for studying
are involved far field pattern distortions, power
transmission loss, boresight error and small
sidelobe degradations[1,2].
A number of different electromagnetic analysis
techniques are developed to discuss the effects of
the radome, for example, Geometric Optics
(GO)[2,3], Physical Optics (PO)[3,4], Plane Wave
Spectra (PWS)[5], the method of moments[6], and
also some hybrid techniques[7,8]. Because the GO
method can produce reasonably results for radome-enclosed antennas with the size about five
wavelengths in diameter, and it can be easily im1
II.
Analysis of GO Method
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Fig. 1
(B +
y2 + z 2
+ x 2 = R2
(7)
where
B2 =
4L20 D02
4D02
(8-1)
R2 =
4L20 + D02
4D02
(8-2)
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JG
G
JG
r = P0 u + S
G
JG JJG
(r Pj 1 u 1 ) N j = 0
where
(9-1)
(9-2)
JJG
JG G
N j = a b
JG
JG
JG
a = (Pj 2 Pj 1 )(u 2 u 1 )
(10-2)
G
JG
JG
b = (Pj 3 Pj 2 )(u 3 u 2 )
(10-3)
Then
JG
JG
(10-1)
JJG
(Pj 1 P0 )(u 1 u 0 ) N j
JG JJG
Si N j
(11)
= Sj
(12)
k =1,2,3
Fig. 5
The parameters of the ogive and conical radome are same as that of the validation example in
Section II, but the structure of the ogive radome is
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No.
tan
d (mm)
3.30
5.0104
1.27
1.08
1.0103
2.54
3.30
5.0104
1.27
Fig. 8
Fig. 6
IV. Conclusions
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