WSEAS Transactions on Communications
Print ISSN: 1109-2742, E-ISSN: 2224-2864
Volume 12, 2013
Three-Dimensional Model of Cylindrical Monopole Plasma Antenna Driven by Surface Wave
Authors: , ,
Abstract: In the recent research on cylindrical monopole plasma antenna excited by surface wave, several basal theoretical problems for the radiation of plasma antenna are investigated. Many meaningful results about plasmas antenna, e.g. the analysis of physical characteristics, numerical calculation methods, software simulation, diagnosis of parameters, etc. have already been obtained. As known that the plasma antennas have reconfigurable properties and many physical parameters of plasma antenna are governed by the applied electromagnetic field and actual coupling method, so model research of plasma antenna is very necessarily in its further investigations and applications. But the precise model of monopole plasma antenna according to its three-dimensional structure has not been proposed yet, the three-dimensional model is proposed in the paper, three-dimensional distributions of electric and magnetic fields around monopole plasma antenna are analyzed. The related formulas and equations of the model are derived by applying molecular dynamic theories and Maxwell-Boltzmann equations; in addition, numerical simulation methods are adopted to verify validity of the proposed model.