Analyze Dipole Antenna with FEKO

FEKO is the stands for he German acronym “FEldberechnung für Körper mit beliebiger Oberfläche”. The software is “ a comprehensive computational electromagnetics (CEM) software used widely in the telecommunications, automobile, aerospace and defense industries” as far as ALTAIR company describe it. ALTAIR is will known for producing HYPERMESH and HYPERSTUDY as reliable software for finite element analysis. For more readings please click HERE for more information form the official website of FEKO.

let start our quick start of the dipole antenna.

• Run FEKO and select CADFEKO

• Select create a new model

• Create values to work with. here we will start backwards so we have the wavelength and we will chose the parameters from their. It is just a demo so feel free to chose the desired parameters for your case. In this example the wavelength (lamda) is 4, hight is lamda/2 and the frequency f will be calculated in air by the equation c0/lamda.

• Now we create the geometry referring to point of origin as start and h as design parameter

• Now we will create the feed at the point of origin

• Lets chose far field outlines

• Now we need to mesh the model , and here we chosed custom mesh equal lamda/1000

• Now we solve the problem and transfer it to post FEKO to see the results

This is the end of this lesson. I really appreciate your comments to improve this series.