EM.CUBE's MoM3D.module is a 3-D structure simulator for modeling metal structures. Its full-wave 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 STL CAD files as native polymesh structures
• Export wire-frame structures as STL CAD files

SOURCES, LOADS & PORTS

• Gap sources
• Gap arrays with amplitude distribution and phase progression
• Multi-port and coupled port definitions
• Short dipole sources
• Import previously generated wire mesh solution as collection of short dipoles
• RLC lumped elements on wires with series-parallel combinations
• Plane wave excitation with linear and circular polarizations
• Multi-Ray excitation capability (ray data imported from Propagation Module or external files)
• Huygens sources imported from FDTD or other modules with abritrary rotation and array configuration

MESH GENERATION

• Regular or structured surface triangular wire-frame mesh
• Automatic connection of lines to surfaces and solids
• User defined wire radius
• Local mesh editing of polymesh objects

3-D MOM SIMULATION

• 3-D Pocklington integral equation formulation of wire structures
• Uniform and fast adaptive frequency sweep
• Angular sweep and bi-static and mono-static RCS calculations
• Parametric sweep with variable object properties or source parameters
• Multi-variable and multi-goal optimization of scene
• Remote simulation capability
• Both Windows and Linux versions of Wire MoM simulation engine available

DATA VISUALIZATION

• Wire-frame current distributions
• Near Field intensity plots (vectorial - amplitude & phase)
• Huygens surface data generation for use in MoM3D or other EM.CUBE modules
• Far field radiation patterns: 3-D pattern visualization and 2-D Cartesian and polar graphs
• Far field characteristics such as directivity, beam width, axial ratio, side lobe levels and null parameters, etc.
• Radiation pattern of an arbitrary array configuraition of the wire structure
• Bi-static and mono-static radar cross section: 3-D visualization and 2-D graphs
• Port characteristics: S/Y/Z parameters, VSWR and Smith chart
• Custom output paraemeters defined as mathematical expressions of standard outputs