Art as Antenna: A Characterization of the Miami Hyatt-Regency Lobby Sculpture Using EMSS-FEKO
B. David Moore
Applied Physics Division Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
At ACES 2006 in Miami, Florida, more than one antenna engineer passing the riverfront entrance of the Hyatt-Regency conference center examined the freestanding cut-plate metal sculpture and wondered how it would perform as an antenna. This paper examines the use of EMSS-FEKO (TM) software to characterize the sculpture as an antenna over a 6:1 frequency band. In particular, Method of Moments (MoM) analyses are augmented using the Multilevel Fast Multipole Method (MLFMM), for which the CPU time is shown to decrease in step-wise fashion as the analysis frequency and MLFMM level increases. Impedance and azimuth directivity patterns are reported.
23rd Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics
2007
March
307-312
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