Analysis of Antenna Around NURBS Surface With Hybrid MoM-PO Technique

Abstract

The hybrid method of moments and physical-optics (MoM-PO) approach is used to calculate the radiation pattern of antenna around arbitrarily shaped structure. The structure is modeled with Non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) surfaces. The hybrid MoM-PO approach is implemented by modifying the impedance matrix of the MoM region with PO. Formula for the scattered PO field is deduced for cases of antenna located around NURBS surface. The stationary phase method (SPM) is applied for the integral of the induced current in the PO region. Results obtained from this method and from MoM-PO approach based on triangle facet model agree well while the former is more efficient in execution time