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Antenna Design with HFSS
Hands-on antenna engineering built around Ansys HFSS. The emphasis is on verification: every simulated result is checked against theory or measurement, because the failure mode in EM simulation is a confident wrong answer.
Pricing on registration
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Modules
- 6
- Format
- Live + Recorded
- Certificate
- Yes
- Tools
- Ansys HFSS, MATLAB
You will hear before it is announced publicly
Outcomes
What you will be able to do
- Build a correct HFSS model from a physical specification
- Choose boundaries and excitations deliberately rather than by habit
- Judge mesh convergence
- Read S11, VSWR, gain, efficiency and radiation patterns critically
- Run a parametric sweep and an optimisation that converge
Prerequisites
What you need first
- Antenna fundamentals
- Basic RF concepts — impedance, VSWR
Software
What to install
- Ansys HFSS (student licence is sufficient for the coursework)
Curriculum
6 modules
Expand a module to see the lessons inside it.
- Interface and project structure
- Units and coordinate systems
- Materials
- Common setup mistakes
- Radiation vs PML
- Lumped vs wave ports
- De-embedding
- What each boundary physically means
- Adaptive meshing
- Delta-S
- When to refine by hand
- Reading a convergence plot honestly
- Design equations
- Feed methods
- Modelling it
- Comparing against theory
- S11 and bandwidth
- Gain and directivity
- Radiation patterns
- Current distribution
- Sweeping geometry
- Setting up an optimisation
- Cost functions
- Debugging failed solves
Projects
What you will build
- Design a patch antenna to a target frequency and bandwidth, then verify it
- Parametric study of substrate height against bandwidth
FAQ
Common questions
Recent versions are all fine. Where the interface differs materially between versions, it is called out.
The coursework models are sized to solve on a normal laptop. Larger structures are supplied as pre-solved projects.