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[Legacy Report] Antenna System Design and Platform Placement using Advanced Electroma

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Mutually destructive interference can occur among antennas located at a common site, such as an aircraft, a ship or a vehicle. Proper antenna placement is required to prevent interference among systems. Full-wave analysis techniques are needed to accurately predict multi-band/co-site effects and to evaluate antenna placement issues.
In this presentation, 3D Electromagnetic simulation techniques will be used to do antenna co-site simulations of a Boeing V22 Osprey aircraft as well as an Oslo Class Frigate. Advanced simulation techniques will be presented which work efficiently for open-space electrically-large metallic models, such as antenna co-site and Radar Cross Section. Additionally, harmonic coupling among antennas from voice radios (VHF & UHF) to SATCOM to IFF system is studied including the effect of nonlinear amplifiers driving antenna feeds. Parametric analysis of antenna placement, rotor/engine position effect on coupling terms and antenna patterns is demonstrated.

Charlotte Blair is a Senior Applications Engineer for ANSYS,INC. (Burlington, Mass, USA). She received her BSEE from Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA and MSEE and PhD at NJIT, Newark, NJ, USA. Dr. Blair serves as IEEE MTTS Region 1 Coordinator and WIE MTTS Coordinator and IEEE MTTS Connecticut Section Chair. She received the IEEE Region 1 Award in 2009.

Bill McGinn is currently a Senior Application Engineer for Ansys Inc. In the past he has worked as a hardware design engineer and was involved in the development of RF/Microwave hybrid components, MMICs and subsystems. Additionally, as a designer in a high-speed digital IC group, he led a CAD effort, and contributed to the generation of active device models for FETs. Most recently he has worked for Ansoft Corporation specializing in high frequency circuit and system level design and simulation. As an Engineering Director he was responsible for QA, Customer Support and Production. Most recently, as a Senior Applications Engineer, he is involved with application development and product definition aimed at both component and system level design. He has most recently been involved in application development and system simulation for wireless applications as well as electromagnetic and thermal simulation of microwave components. He has written multiple articles and holds a BSEE from Stevens Institute of Technology as well as a Business degree from St. Peters College in NJ.