An antenna company that helps elephants and rocket cars

Posted by dberhane on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:39AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42337050

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Re:An antenna company that helps elephants and rocket cars by phasetransition on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:56AM (#15969110)

Fun name choice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector

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Re:An antenna company that helps elephants and rocket cars by madengr on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:08AM (#15969176)

He only needs an “r” at the end of his name, as the far field radiation pattern of an antenna is essentially the Fourier transform of its current distribution.

Spot on though about antennas, essentially bending metal the right way.

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Re:An antenna company that helps elephants and rocket cars by lpmay on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:08AM (#15969177)

Interesting. I've used an EM and antenna simulation tool called FEKO that is also originally from South Africa. Is there a university there with a strong electromagnetics focus?

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Re:An antenna company that helps elephants and rocket cars by junkcollector on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:51PM (#15971926)

I used FEKO for some time and it had the best interface for doing optimization out of the EM solvers in my opinion. The development team out of South Africa was also excellent in the brief times I got to work with them directly. Unfortunately after the company was acquired the new monetization scheme didn't work out with my office and we largely switched to CST.

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