MININEC APPLICATIONS GUIDE

Abstract

The Mini-Numerical Electromagnetics Code -- MININEC has become very popular among amateur and professional antenna practitioners. Its widespread acceptance is due in no small part to its great versatility, user friendliness and extreme compactness which permits installation on PC's. Prior to MININEC, serious numerical modeling of antennas had to be accomplished primarily on mainframe computers. With MININEC, it is now possible to solve complex wire antenna problems in a conversational mode on a modest desk top computer, for example a PC having 64K of RAM. The present paper is concerned with application guidelines for MININEC. The input data set is discussed and numerical results are interpreted. A variety of illustrative linear antenna problems are worked out. [Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 21-28 (1986)]