3-D Electromagnetic Visualization

When you've just installed a new radio on your aircraft, the last thing you want to find out is that the system doesn't meet your expectations. ARINC can help you avoid this and similar situations—quickly and cost effectively—by performing electromagnetic modeling and simulation using our proprietary 3-D graphics or 3-D visualization technology.

Using this technology, we create a 3-D model of any communication platform such as an airplane, helicopter, ship, ground vehicle, or fixed/stand-alone system displayed as a wire-frame representation. We usually obtain 3-D model data using the same technology the motion picture industry uses when creating models for their action films.

Using commercial computer-aided drawing software, we create the wire-frame model, then transform the model into input data for electromagnetic analysis tools, using ARINC-developed translators.

The electromagnetic results are typically displayed in two ways: the radiation pattern or "bubble" emanating from the antenna, and the current distributions induced on the skin of the platform by the antenna's radiation, shown as various colored segments.

These 3-D electromagnetic visualizations make it easy to analyze antenna performance and compare the results of alternative antenna configurations and designs. They also allow us to identify precisely where on the platform a new or modified antenna might produce interfering radiation with another new or existing antenna. Both technical and nontechnical viewers can easily and clearly understand what's being displayed.

If there is a problem, we can change the antenna configuration, quickly see the result, and continue iterating until the problem disappears.