Description
Book SynopsisMonopole Antennas provides an industry standard for the modeling, testing, and application of airborne and ground-based monopole antennas. This book, with more than double the content of the author's previous, sold-out book, Monopole Elements on Circular Ground Planes, includes structures in proximity to flat Earth in addition to those in free space of the earlier book. It also features state-of-the-art numerical methods, including Richmond's method of moments for disk ground planes and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's Numerical Electomagnetic Code for radial-wire ground planes.
Table of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Monopole Elements on Disk Ground Planes in Free Space, 1: Introduction, 2: Circuit Representation, 3: Models in Which the Current Distribution on the Monopole Element is Initially Known, 4: Models in Which the Current Distributions on the Monopole Element and Ground Plane Are Both Initially Unknown, 5: Comparison with Experimental Results, 6: Applications Utilizing Electrically Small Elements, Part II: Monopole Elements on Disk, Radial-Wire, and Mesh Ground Planes in Proximity to Flat Earth, 7: Influence of Proximity to Earth, 8: Characterization of Antenna Parameters, 9: Models in the Absence of a Ground Plane, 10: Disk Ground Planes, 11: Radial-Wire Ground Planes, 12: Wire-Mesh Ground Planes, 13: System Performance, Appendix A: Computer Plots and Printouts of Numerical Results, Appendix B: Computer Programs, Appendix C: Evaluation of Sommerfeld-King Integrals for Surface-Wave Fields, Appendix D: Beam Pointing Errors Caused by a Nonhomogeneous Earth, References, Index
