Scattering & RCS simulation with Efield®

Major radar cross section (RCS) applications include

  • RCS of full vehicles such as aircrafts and ships
  • RCS of air-intakes and exhausts
  • RCS of small and large scatterers installed on vehicles such as antennas and veapons
  • Low Observable shape and material design
  • Advise testing set-up and interpretation of measurement results

Using Efield® unique solver technology analysis of RCS of large vehicles such as aircrafts or ships are well suited to the Efield® frequency domain MoM, MLFMM, MLFMM-PO and PO solvers. The Efield® frequency domain solvers have some unique features that ensures efficient RCS analysis

  • MRI a novel interpolation method for fast computation of monostatic RCS when using MLFMM
  • Unique integral formulation for applications including dielectrics or RAM reducing solution time
  • Efficient pre-conditioner for accelerated convergence in MLFMM
  • Parallelized solver for both shared and distributed memory computers

Scattering & RCS examples with Efield®

JINA 2006 testcase using Efield®

The test case deals with the computation of RCS of a geometry consisting of a perfectly conducting half sphere and cylinder located over a perfectly conducting finite surface.
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RCS simulation of the Predator UAV with Efield® MLFMM

RCS simulation of the Predator UAV with Efield® MLFMM. Surface currents for plane wave excitation with horizontal polarization at 3 GHz.
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NASA almond

Simulation of RCS of the NASA almond using Efield®.
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Simulation of RCS of a jet fighter airplane at 3 GHz with Efield® MLFMM with more than 106 unknowns

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Simulation of RCS of a UAV at 5 GHz with Efield® PO with ray-based shadow detection. Number of unknowns: 2 x 106