% % Tutorials / radar cross section of a metal sphere % % This tutorial is unfinished! % % Describtion at: % http://openems.de/index.php/Tutorial:_RCS_Sphere % % Tested with % - Matlab 2011a / Octave 3.4.3 % - openEMS v0.0.29 % % (C) 2012 Thorsten Liebig close all clear clc %% setup the simulation physical_constants; unit = 1e-3; % all length in mm sphere.rad = 160; % size of the simulation box SimBox = 1000; PW_Box = 500; %% setup FDTD parameter & excitation function f_start = 200e6; % start frequency f_stop = 1000e6; % stop frequency FDTD = InitFDTD( 30000 ); FDTD = SetGaussExcite( FDTD, 0.5*(f_start+f_stop), 0.5*(f_stop-f_start) ); BC = [1 1 1 1 1 1]*3; % set boundary conditions FDTD = SetBoundaryCond( FDTD, BC ); %% setup CSXCAD geometry & mesh % currently, openEMS cannot automatically generate a mesh max_res = c0 / f_stop / unit / 20; % cell size: lambda/20 CSX = InitCSX(); %create fixed lines for the simulation box, substrate and port mesh.x = SmoothMeshLines([-SimBox/2 0 SimBox/2], max_res); mesh.y = mesh.x; mesh.z = mesh.x; %% create metal sphere CSX = AddMetal( CSX, 'sphere' ); % create a perfect electric conductor (PEC) CSX = AddSphere(CSX,'sphere',10,[0 0 0],sphere.rad); %% plane wave excitation k_dir = [1 0 0]; % plane wave direction --> x-direction E_dir = [0 0 1]; % plane wave polarization --> E_z CSX = AddPlaneWaveExcite(CSX, 'plane_wave', k_dir, E_dir); start = [-PW_Box/2 -PW_Box/2 -PW_Box/2]; stop = -start; CSX = AddBox(CSX, 'plane_wave', 0, start, stop); %% dump boxes CSX = AddDump(CSX, 'Et'); start = [mesh.x(1) mesh.y(1) 0]; stop = [mesh.x(end) mesh.y(end) 0]; CSX = AddBox(CSX, 'Et', 0, start, stop); % add 8 lines in all direction as pml spacing mesh = AddPML(mesh,8); CSX = DefineRectGrid( CSX, unit, mesh ); %% prepare simulation folder Sim_Path = 'Sphere_RCS'; Sim_CSX = 'Sphere_RCS.xml'; [status, message, messageid] = rmdir( Sim_Path, 's' ); % clear previous directory [status, message, messageid] = mkdir( Sim_Path ); % create empty simulation folder %% write openEMS compatible xml-file WriteOpenEMS( [Sim_Path '/' Sim_CSX], FDTD, CSX ); %% show the structure CSXGeomPlot( [Sim_Path '/' Sim_CSX] ); %% run openEMS RunOpenEMS( Sim_Path, Sim_CSX); %% disp('Use Paraview to display the elctric fields dumped by openEMS');