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Antenna Placement

Course Overview

The Ansys HFSS SBR+ Antenna Placement course introduces users to the shooting and bouncing ray (SBR+) capability in HFSS.  Applications include antenna placement onto electrically large platforms (installed antenna) and antenna-to-antenna coupling.  Modeling antennas in 3D Components, linked near field components and linked far field files are all covered.  The hands-on workshops include real-world scenarios, such as a antenna side mirror assembly interacting with a metallic car body, a mobile antenna inside a car interacting with an antenna in the rear-view mirror, and WiFi antenna coupling between a car interior and a garage with the garage and pavement material properties included.

Prerequisites

  • HFSS Antenna course or equivalent knowledge of HFSS with antenna applications.
  • Knowledge of multiple different electromagnetic propagation models including wave and ray.
  • Knowledge of antenna design engineering principles including far-field antenna radiation patterns.

Teaching Method

Lecture notes and hands-on simulation workshop.

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Learning Outcome

Following completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Model antennas installed on platforms with 3D Components and linked near field sources.
  • Set up antenna coupling simulations using far field radiation pattern files in SBR+ solution type simulations and using 3D Components with SBR+ hybrid regions.

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Learning Options

Training materials for this course are available with a Ansys Learning Hub Subscription. If there is no active public schedule available, private training can be arranged. Please contact us.

 Agenda

This is a half day classroom course covering both workshops and lectures. For virtual training, this course is covered over 2 x 2 hour sessions, lectures only.

      Virtual Classroom Session 1 Virtual Classroom Session 2

      Virtual Classroom Session 1

      • Lecture 01: Simulation Scale and SBR+ Overview
      • Hands-On Workshop 01: Creating HFSS 3D Components
      • Analysis of antenna module using HFSS
      • Creating an HFSS 3D Component of side-mirror assembly
      • Lecture 02: Antenna Placement
      • Hybrid regions address simulation scale
      • 3D Component antenna models and mesh reuse
      • Linked near field source antenna components
      • SBR+ model blockage
      • Near field current source options
      • Hands-On Workshop 2.1: 3D Component Antenna Placement
      • Import car body model and assign boundaries and hybrid regions
      • Creating parameterized relative coordinate system for side-mirror placement
      • Inserting an HFSS 3D Component for antenna side-mirror assembly
      • Simulate parametric sweep and overlay field plots on geometry
      • Hands-On Workshop 2.2: 3D Linked Near Field Antenna Placement
      • Set phase center on antenna design in separate HFSS project
      • Set up and simulate near field antenna source
      • View gain plots for different mirror angles

      Virtual Classroom Session 2

      • Hands-On Workshop 03: Multiple Antenna Coupling
      • Setting antenna phase center
      • Geometry import and setting PEC boundary
      • Creating far field antenna component linked to file
      • Simulating and viewing coupling S-parameter
      • Hands-On Workshop 04: Vehicle-to-Home Communication with HFSS SBR+
      • Importing geometry and assigning layered impedances
      • Creating antennas from the Antenna Toolkit
      • Creating antenna 3D Components
      • Plotting VRT – virtual ray tracing with car and garage