Fractal antenna can meet the requirements of designing a multiband, low profile and small antenna. With advancement in wireless technology over the past decade, there is an increasing demand for miniaturization, cost effective, multiband and wideband antennas. Fractal antenna designs can support in meeting these requirements. Fractal antenna design is a geometric pattern that is repeated at eve...

At Kalmar Maritime Academy (KMA) the first-year students at the Master Mariner program complete a course in the use of ARPA 1 . The course includes eight simulator exercises, where seven of them are completed in pairs and the last exercise is an individual assessment. Previously, instructors have encouraged students to choose a new partner for each of the first seven exercises; however, the rea...

A three-antenna synthetic aperture radar interferometer (InSAR) with a statistically optimal data processor for three-dimensional (3-D) terrain mapping has been proposed recently to reduce the phase ambiguity and data-noise drawbacks of the conventional two-antenna SAR interferometry technique. In this paper, a numerical simulator is developed to assess the achievable performance and various de...

The Space Systems Institute at the University of Stuttgart offers its students the unique possibility of flying a model Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the institute’s own Soyuz simulator. Within the Soyuz Rendezvous and Docking Seminar, which takes place each summer semester, the participating students first have a few theoretical lectures, then the actual flight training begins. The goal of the p...

SAR (synthetic aperture radar) images can be synthesized in a realistic way by means of an image simulator. This may be useful for several purposes, such as user training or future SAR system design. A simulation strategy depends on modelling constraints and on the purpose for which the simulation is required. After a brief historical overview and an attempt to classify the main SAR image simul...

In this work, the preliminary results of a process integration analysis of a logistical fuels processing plant is presented. A simulation model of a bench scale test bed was developed using a commercial simulator (Pro/II) and used to generate the necessary data for performing a thermal pinch analysis. The analysis shows that considerable savings can be obtained through increased thermal integra...

With advancement in communication technology over the past decade, there is an increasing demand for miniaturization, cost effective, multiband and wideband antennas. Fractal antenna designs can support in meeting these requirements. Though these antennas provide several advantages but at the same time miniaturization and performance of the fractal antennas can be further enhanced using reconfi...

A Microstrip Conformal Hexagonal Slot Patch Antenna fed by 50Ω microstrip line for various applications is presented in this paper. The strip loaded proposed antenna is fed through microstrip line to achieve proper impedance matching. Simulated results on High Frequency Structure Simulator software version 13 (HFSS 13) and CST10 are compared for FR4 – epoxiy substrate at different central angle...

Application domain specific processors are becoming more and more appealing because of their peculiar feature of flexibility in terms of number of algorithms which one single architecture can execute and also in terms of the possible computational improvement due to the increase of parallelism. The specific domain chosen is the family of Jacobi algorithms which are often used in the field of ad...

Millimeter-wave antennas have been developed for applications of broadband high-speed wireless communication systems and automotive radar systems in these days. Microstrip antennas (MSA) are more advantageous than other millimeter-wave antennas at the viewpoints of low-profile and low-cost. The antenna is connected to the backed RF circuits through the waveguide in the millimeter-wave module as...