Application of UTD for prediction of radiation pattern and mutual coupling associated with antennas on faceted airborne platforms

Abstract

In this paper, development of a new generation UTD code has been discussed. What makes the proposed UTD code unique is the application of UTD directly to faceted airborne platforms without going through the complicated task of approximating the electrically large platform in terms of canonical shapes. Numerical results show that the proposed UTD code produces promising results in the prediction of radiation pattern of antennas on faceted airborne platforms. This code will be very useful for the placement of antennas on electrically large platforms, and their EM interference/EM compatibility (EMI/EMC) analysis.