Open AccessOverlapped subarray decomposition method for an effective simulation of electrically large planar arrays of antennas
Author(s) -
Chou HsiTseng,
Lu KungYu,
Chen YuChia
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
iet microwaves, antennas and propagation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.555
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1751-8733
pISSN - 1751-8725
DOI - 10.1049/iet-map.2013.0489
Subject(s) - planar , method of moments (probability theory) , microstrip antenna , computer science , antenna (radio) , code (set theory) , microstrip , electronic engineering , dipole antenna , planar array , acoustics , engineering , physics , mathematics , telecommunications , statistics , computer graphics (images) , set (abstract data type) , estimator , programming language
This study presents an overlapped subarray decomposition method to effectively simulate electrically large planar array of antennas, where the extracted subarrays can be simulated in parallel by commercial codes in a distributed fashion. This method is relatively simple and allows one to obtain a reasonable result within the acceptable level of accuracy for the engineering purpose. A plug‐in code can be built up by using a commercial code as a computational engine. The characteristics of this method are investigated by considering the simulation of a dipole antenna array via the application of the method of moments (MoM). It is also validated by performing a realistic design of microstrip patch antennas. The comparisons with measurement results are performed and summarised.