EM.CUBE's Metal3D.module is a frequency domain full-wave simulator for modeling 3-D metal structures. Its 3-D Method of Moments (MoM) simulation engine analyzes wire structures or wire-frame models of metallic surfaces and volumes with utmost modeling accuracy in an open boundary environment.

FEATURES

Structure Definition

• Metal Wires, Curves, Surfaces and Solids in Free Space
• Wire-frame Mesh of Curves, Surfaces and Solids
• Import of STL CAD files as native Polymesh Structures

SOURCES, LOADS AND PORTS

• Gap Sources
• Gap Arrays with Amplitude/Phase Distribution
• Multi-port or Coupled Port Definitions
• Plane Wave Excitation
• RLC Lumped Elements on Wires

MESH GENERATION

• Structured Surface Triangular Wireframe Grid
• Regular Surface Triangular Wireframe Grid
• Regular Volume Tetrahedral Wireframe Grid (Coming Soon)
• Automatic Connection of Lines to Surfaces and Solids
• Local Mesh Editing for Polymesh Objects

3-D MOM SIMULATION

• 3-D Pocklington Integral Equation Formulation of Wire Structures
• Infinite Material Half-Space Green's Functions for Calculation of Far Fields in Presence of a Lossy Ground
• Uniform and Fast Adaptive Frequency Sweep
• Remote Simulation Capability
• Both Windows and Linux Versions of Wire MoM Simulation Engine Available

VISUALIZATION

• Wire-Frame Current Distributions
• Near Field Intensity Plots (Vectorial - Amplitude & Phase)
• Huygens Surface Data Generation
• Port Characteristics: S/Y/Z Parameters
• Far Field Radiation Patterns: 3-D Pattern Visualization and 2-D Cartesian and Polar Graphs
• 3-D Array Factor Augmentation of Radiation Patterns
• Bi-Static and Mono-Static Radar Cross Section
• Port Characteristics: S/Y/Z Parameters
• Smith Chart