We study the radar cross section (RCS) property of an aircraft considering the electromagnetic (EM) characteristics of a frequency selective surface (FSS) radome, mounted on the aircraft. Instead of full-wave methods, we utilize high-frequency methods, such as the shooting and bouncing rays (SBR), physical theory of diffraction (PTD), and flat model, taking a significant computational efficiency. Based on the developed algorithm, we analyze monostatic and bistatic RCSs of the aircraft equipped with either single- and multi-layer dielectric, FSS, or PEC radomes in terms of frequency and polarization. Our calculations are validated by comparing with those of the commercial EM simulator with significant computational efficiency. The present numerical study indicates that including the radome EM characteristics into the overall aircraft RCS study is crucial for the accurate RCS estimate

In this paper, we analyze the radar cross section (RCS) of an integrated mast and present the optimized mast shape for RCS reduction. The RCS is simulated using commercial electromagnetic (EM) software based on the shooting and bouncing rays (SBR) method and the diffraction fields at the edges are also considered. Threat frequencies, threat regions and cardinal points are first defined considering the operational environments of a naval vessel. We calculate and analyze the RCS of the integrated mast in terms of the threat frequencies, the shapes of the integrated mast and the direction and polarization of the incident waves. The shape of the integrated mast is optimized based on the shaping technique. The optimized mast has low RCS properties in the primary threat sectors except for the exceptional angle regions.

Radiation from a cavity-backed circular aperture array antenna enclosed by a frequency selective surface (FSS) radome is studied using the hybrid analysis method, by combining the mode matching method, the ray tracing technique, and Huygens’s principle. The equivalent magnetic surface currents on the apertures are derived from the aperture electromagnetic fields, which are calculated based on the mode matching method. The rays are generated from the equivalent magnetic surface currents and used to analyze the FSS radome based on the ray tracing technique. After being obtained from both the mode matching method and the ray tracing technique, electromagnetic fields on an outermost radome are transformed into the equivalent electric and magnetic surface currents using Huygens’s principle. The radiated fields are computed from the equivalent surface currents and compared with the measured data.

한국전자파학회논문지 (The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science)