Antenna Modeling

1. NEC - Numerical Electromagnetics Code
2. The Math - The Method of Moments
3. Linux Based by xnec2c - A Graphical NEC2 Antenna Simulation by Neoklis 5B4AZ
4. Windoes Based by Arie Voors - 4nec2 - Modeling and Download
5. MMANA Modeling
6. Coil Shortened Dipole
7. Videos by Justin Johnson, G0KSC
8. NEC Lab
9. Windows Based MMANA-GAL
10. Cebik, W4RNL Guides
11. References

NEC - Numerical Electromagnetics Code

EZNEC and 4nec2 are based upon the Numerical Electromagnetics Code, or NEC, which is a popular antenna modelling system for wire and surface antennas originally written in FORTRAN in the 1970s by Gerald Burke and Andrew Poggio of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The Math - The Method of Moments

Linux Based by xnec2c - A Graphical NEC2 Antenna Simulation by Neoklis 5B4AZ

Xnec2c is an open source port of NEC2 from FORTRAN to C. It is a high-performance multi-threaded electromagnetic simulation package to model antenna near- and far-field radiation patterns for Linux and UNIX operating systems. The original FORTRAN version of NEC2 was ported to C by Neoklis Kyriazis, 5B4AZ and released as nec2c. Later he wrote xnec2c, a graphical interface for ease of use with many more features.

xnec2c-optimize is a related application is an optimization framework to tune antenna geometries with xnec2c.

Windoes Based by Arie Voors - 4nec2 - Modeling and Download

MMANA Modeling

Coil Shortened Dipole

Videos by Justin Johnson, G0KSC

NEC Lab

NEC Lab is a tool based on the Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC2) that applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design antennas. NEC Lab takes as input a set of requirements (VSWR, gain, radiation pattern, etc.) for a specific frequency or frequency bands. NEC Lab considers, analyzes and evaluates several design options to draft an antenna. NEC Lab uses fine tuning techniques to improve this draft and create a high performance design. NEC lab will help you analyze and evaluate the resulting antenna performance.

Windows Based MMANA-GAL

Windows Only:
MMANA-GALis based upon MININEC which was written by John Rockway with support from Jim Logan.

MMANA-GAL is an antenna-analyzing tool based on the moment method, which was introduced in MININEC version 3. The BASIC source code of the computation engine is published as a PDS in MININEC. The program use the MININEC-3 engine modified by Alexandre Schewelew, DL1PBD, and are written in C++.

Cebik, W4RNL Guides

References