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Boundary element modeling of radio base station antennas. (English) Zbl 1195.78062

Summary: The paper presents an accurate and efficient boundary element procedure for the analysis of radiation from base station antennas. The base station antenna system is represented by the vertical antenna array in front of perfectly conducting (PEC) ground plane reflector.The formulation of the problem is based on a set of coupled Pocklington integro-differential equations for vertical antenna array. This set of coupled equations has been numerically treated by the indirect Galerkin-Bubnov boundary element method (GB-IBEM). The numerical results for the currents induced along the wires obtained via GB-IBEM are compared to the results computed via numerical electromagnetic code (NEC).Knowing the current distribution along the antenna array the corresponding radiated field is calculated. Some illustrative numerical results are presented in the paper.

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78M10 Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory
78A50 Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory
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