Looking for CST tutorials on modelling wire antennas

[hfssman]

Hi everybody. I am a new user of CST software and I am interested in modeling antennas including wire antennas with a finite radius (thin wire antenna). Does CST have a user manual describing the step by step process of modeling such antennas? Does any one have any files that I can use to help me model my antenna systems? I really really appreciate any help that I can get. Thank you in advance.

 

[elomatic]

Re: Help with CST

What kind of antenna do you want to create? I could create a simple dipole for you that would be made from thin wires. I would just create them as thin cylinder. I don't know if that will do any problems with the mesh but it's easy to find out. Give me more information and I could help you.
There is a very good tutorial but that does not contain an antenna in free space. However, I just did the patch antenna tutorial and I was able to simulate all my antennas. MWS is very simple to use for most tasks. The more you play with it the more you learn.

 

[hfssman]

Re: Help with CST

Thank you so much for taking the time to write back to me. I am interested in modeling all kinds of antennas and in particular wire antennas. I was able to look at the example within CST on a dipole in free space and I can nearly follow that. However, what I am interested in is some kind of a manual that shows me step-by-step how they have gone about modeling this antenna. For example, I can see that they have drwan a rectangula box around the feed-point and have used the "subtraction" function at that point. I want to be able to read off a manual that explains how you take these steps and for what purpose. Specifically, why do you have to do that box? What should be the size of it? etc. If I can see a detailed description of this proble, then I can take that and model other systems that I am trying to analyze. Thanks again and hope to hear from you soon.