Dear Friends,
I have to make a near field simulation of dipole antenna array at 11 GHz... Aperture size is 1 meter... 32 dipole antennas are uniformly distributed through aperture (with equal step size) ... Unfortunately, as Tallface65 says, the array factor is not calculated for near field in HFSS... So, one should force the simulation for all of antennas... It measn that one should draw all antennas in array and then perform the simulation... It is clear that this way requires huge computational time... On my computer I can not perform the simulation in HFSS (I tried but unsuccesfull - memory is not enough)... I have made a decision that I will change the simulation software... my preference is FEKO to perform Near field Array antenna simulations.... If you could give recommendations about which software is more suitable for array antenna simulations, I will be really glad.... Already I have spent two weeks...
Already thank you very much for your helps...
Best regards...
Harun