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Commercial Antenna Design Tools

Author : Qing Huo Liu

Published in: Handbook of Antenna Technologies

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Antenna design traditionally relies on physical understanding of electromagnetic radiation, intuition, and experience, as well as trial-and-error experimentations. With the advent of computers and increasingly sophisticated numerical methods, however, computer-aided design tools play a central role in today’s antenna design and optimization process. This chapter presents a summary of commonly used commercial antenna design simulation tools and their underlying computational electromagnetics methods.

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Title: Commercial Antenna Design Tools
Author: Qing Huo Liu
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Handbook of Antenna Technologies
Print ISBN: 978-981-4560-43-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-4560-44-3

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-44-3_5