% % Tutorials / radar cross section of a metal sphere % % Description at: % http://openems.de/index.php/Tutorial:_RCS_Sphere % % Tested with % - Matlab 2013a / Octave 3.8.1 % - openEMS v0.0.32 % % (C) 2012-2014 Thorsten Liebig close all clear clc %% setup the simulation physical_constants; unit = 1e-3; % all length in mm sphere.rad = 200; inc_angle = 0 /180*pi; %incident angle (to x-axis) in rad % size of the simulation box SimBox = 1000; PW_Box = 750; %% setup FDTD parameter & excitation function f_start = 50e6; % start frequency f_stop = 1000e6; % stop frequency f0 = 500e6; FDTD = InitFDTD( ); 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 max_res = c0 / f_stop / unit / 20; % cell size: lambda/20 CSX = InitCSX(); %create mesh smooth_mesh = SmoothMeshLines([0 SimBox/2], max_res); mesh.x = unique([-smooth_mesh smooth_mesh]); 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 = [cos(inc_angle) sin(inc_angle) 0]; % plane wave direction E_dir = [0 0 1]; % plane wave polarization --> E_z CSX = AddPlaneWaveExcite(CSX, 'plane_wave', k_dir, E_dir, f0); 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); %%nf2ff calc start = [mesh.x(1) mesh.y(1) mesh.z(1)]; stop = [mesh.x(end) mesh.y(end) mesh.z(end)]; [CSX nf2ff] = CreateNF2FFBox(CSX, 'nf2ff', 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'); %% EF = ReadUI( 'et', Sim_Path, f0 ); % time domain/freq domain voltage Pin = 0.5*norm(E_dir)^2/Z0 .* abs(EF.FD{1}.val).^2; %% nf2ff = CalcNF2FF(nf2ff, Sim_Path, f0, pi/2, [-180:2:180]*pi/180, 'Mode',1); RCS = 4*pi./Pin(1).*nf2ff.P_rad{1}(:); polar(nf2ff.phi,RCS); xlabel('x -->'); ylabel('y -->'); hold on grid on drawnow %% freq = linspace(f_start,f_stop,100); EF = ReadUI( 'et', Sim_Path, freq ); % time domain/freq domain voltage Pin = 0.5*norm(E_dir)^2/Z0 .* abs(EF.FD{1}.val).^2; nf2ff = CalcNF2FF(nf2ff, Sim_Path, freq, pi/2, pi+inc_angle, 'Mode',1); for fn=1:numel(freq) back_scat(fn) = 4*pi./Pin(fn).*nf2ff.P_rad{fn}(1); end %% figure plot(freq/1e6,back_scat,'Linewidth',2); grid on; xlabel('frequency (MHz) \rightarrow'); ylabel('RCS (m^2) \rightarrow'); title('radar cross section'); %% figure lambda = c0./freq; semilogy(sphere.rad*unit./lambda,back_scat/(pi*sphere.rad*unit*sphere.rad*unit),'Linewidth',2); ylim([10^-2 10^1]) grid on; xlabel('sphere radius / wavelength \rightarrow'); ylabel('RCS / (\pi a^2) \rightarrow'); title('normalized radar cross section');