MULTIPATH ANTENNA SYSTEM OF THE VHF BAND BASED ON A LENS MADE OF GRANITE RUBBLE

Предложена конструкция приземной многолучевой антенной решетки на основе линзы из гранитного щебня, позволяющая одновременно формировать до нескольких десятков лучей в длинноволновой области УКВ-диапазона волн. Эффективная диэлектрическая проницаемость гранитного щебня оценивалась с помощью формулы Лихтенекера для мелкодисперсных смесей; ее величина приблизительно равна 3. Для оценки величины замедления поверхностных волн в линзе использовалась методика анализа дисперсионных характеристик зеркального диэлектрического волновода; при высоте линзы 1.8 метра эффективная диэлектрическая проницаемость эквивалентного зеркального диэлектрического волновода равна 2.1. В качестве облучателей линзы - несимметричные электрические вибраторы, расположенные на окружности по периметру линзы, диаметр которой составляет 30 метров; диаметр подстилающей стальной поверхности составляет 40 метров. Предложенная антенная система характеризуется потерями в щебне около 3 дБ при диаметре линзы около 3,8 длин волн; показано, что коэффициент направленного действия у каждого луча может составлять около 15,5 дБ, при ширине главного лепестка в азимутальной плоскости по уровню половинной мощности около 10 градусов We propose a design of a surface multi-beam antenna array based on a lens of crushed granite, which makes it possible to simultaneously form up to several tens of beams in the long-wave region of the VHF wave range. We estimated the effective dielectric constant of crushed granite using the Lichtenecker formula for fine mixtures; its value is approximately equal to 3. To estimate the magnitude of the deceleration of surface waves in the lens, we used a technique to analyze the dispersion characteristics of a mirror dielectric waveguide; at a lens height of 1.8 meters, the effective dielectric constant of the equivalent mirror dielectric waveguide is 2.1. As irradiators of the lens - asymmetric electric vibrators located on a circle around the perimeter of the lens, the diameter of which is 30 meters; the diameter of the underlying steel surface is 40 meters. The proposed antenna system is characterized by a loss in rubble of about 3 dB with a lens diameter of about 3.8 wavelengths; the directivity of each beam can be about 15.5 dB, with the width of the main lobe in the azimuthal plane at half power level of about 10 degrees

LSTM-Based Remote Sensing Inversion of Largescale Sand Wave Topography of the Taiwan Banks

Shallow underwater topography has important practical applications in fisheries, navigation, and pipeline laying. Traditional multibeam bathymetry is limited by the high cost of largescale topographic surveys in large, shallow sand wave areas. Remote sensing inversion methods to detect shallow sand wave topography in Taiwan rely heavily on measured water depth data. To address these problems, this study proposes a largescale remote sensing inversion model of sand wave topography based on long short-term memory network machine learning. Using multi-angle sun glitter remote sensing to obtain sea surface roughness (SSR) information and by learning and training SSR and its corresponding water depth information, the sand wave topography of a largescale shallow sea sand wave region is extracted. The accuracy of the model is validated through its application to a 774 km2 area in the sand wave topography of the Taiwan Banks. The model obtains a root mean square error of 3.31–3.67 m, indicating that the method has good generalization capability and can achieve a largescale topographic understanding of shallow sand waves with some training on measured bathymetry data. Sand wave topography is widely present in tidal environments; our method has low requirements for ground data, with high application value.

Two-dimensional model of wave hydrodynamics with high accuracy dispersion relation. II. Fourth, sixth and eighth orders

Построена полностью нелинейная слабо дисперсионная модель волновой гидродинамики четвертого порядка длинноволновой аппроксимации. За скорость в модели взята усредненная по глубине горизонтальная составляющая скорости трехмерного течения. Учтена подвижность дна. Выполненная модификация модели обеспечивает шестой и восьмой порядки точности аппроксимации дисперсионного соотношения трехмерной модели потенциальных течений. In the numerical simulation of medium-length surface waves in the framework of nonlinear dispersive (NLD) models, an increased accuracy of reproducing the characteristics of the simulated processes is required. A number of works (Kirby (2016), e.g.) describe approaches to improve the known NLD-models. In particular, NLD-models of the fourth order of the long-wave approximation have been proposed and, based on a comparison of numerical results with experimental data, their high accuracy has been demonstrated (Ataie-Ashtiani and Najafi-Jilani (2007); Zhou and Teng (2010)). In these new models, the horizontal component of the velocity vector of the threedimensional (FNPF-) model of potential flows at a certain surface located between the bottom and the free boundary was chosen as the velocity vector. The result was a very cumbersome form of equations. In addition, the laws of conservation of mass and momentum do not hold for these models. The main result of this work is the derivation of a two-parameter fully nonlinear weakly dispersive (mSGN4) model of the fourth order of the long-wave approximation, which is a generalization of the well-known Serre-Green-Naghdi (SGN) second order model. In the derivation, the velocity averaged over the thickness of the liquid layer was used. The assumption about the potentiality of the three-dimensional flow was used only at the stage of closing the model. The movement of the bottom is taken into account. For the derived model, the law of conservation of mass is satisfied, and the law of conservation of total momentum is satisfied in the case of a horizontal stationary bottom. The equations of the mSGN4-model are invariant under the Galilean transformation and are presented in a compact form similar to the equations of gas dynamics. The dispersion relation of the mSGN4-model has the fourth order of accuracy in the long wave region and satisfactorily approximates the dispersion relation of the FNPF-model in the short wave region. Moreover, with a special choice of the values of the model parameters, an increased accuracy of approximating the dispersion relation of the FNPF-model at long waves (sixth or eighth order) is achieved. Analysis of the deviations of the values of the phase velocity of the mSGN4 model from the values of the “reference” speed of the FNPF model in the entire wavelength range showed that the most preferable is the mSGN4 model with the parameter values corresponding to the Pad’e approximant (2,4).

Digitized Reconfigurable Metal Reflectarray Surfaces for Millimeter-Wave Beam-Engineering

Digitized beam-forming metal reflectarray antennas are designed for the millimeter-wave region. The phase control of antennas has been implemented by the reconfiguration of rectangular grooves on a metal plate. The antenna has 1147 elements arranged in an aluminum metal plate. The depths of all metal grooves are manipulated for designed phase control of high-gain beam-aimed reflectors. We have demonstrated a digitized reconfigurable metal reflectarray to steer a re-radiated millimeter-wave field from the reflector in a two-dimensional scanning plane from −20∘ to 20∘. The far-field patterns show that the measured gain of the 2-bit reflectarray is only 1 dB lower than that of a non-digitized reflectarray antenna. The measured peak gain is higher than 31.7 dB, and the measurements show that the gain of the full 40∘ scanned beam is 31.7 dB and well-defined scanned beams are obtained with a maximum scan gain loss of 0.2 dB. The proposed reconfigurable antennas can be a useful candidate for high-gain beam-aimed antennas for practical reflecting surfaces and a variety of wireless and satellite communication systems.

Генерация шума в одночастотном генераторе на лавинно-пролетном диоде миллиметрового диапазона длин волн под воздействием низкочастотного гармонического колебания

The investigation of effect of the low-frequency harmonic oscillation on the nourishment circuit of the 7mm wave region IMPATT diode oscillator was continued. In first time it was shown, that excitement of noise and the maximum height-frequency noise spectrum extension at a low-frequency oscillation amplitude increasing are connected with a transitory decreasing of the diode current lower the start current of height-frequency generation in the IMPATT diode oscillator.