Aircraft Antenna Placement Investigation Utilizing Measured Sources in Simulation Model

An antenna placement investigation for a hypersonic aircraft model is presented. A method is proposed to process measured antenna data as equivalent sources in a simulation model. This method is beneficial especially due to the often limited availability of exact design data of commercial antennas due to IP reasons. Therefore, realistic and reliable simulation models of such antennas are difficult to implement. With the proposed approach, expensive back-engineering becomes redundant and is replaced by basic measurements. A comparison with a full-simulation model verifies this approach.