People and planes: Development of broadband EMC models of biological materials on aircraft

TY - GEN

T1 - People and planes

T2 - Development of broadband EMC models of biological materials on aircraft

AU - Robinson, Martin Paul

AU - Flintoft, Ian David

AU - Melia, Gregory Connor Richard

PY - 2011/8/13

Y1 - 2011/8/13

N2 - At microwave frequencies, an aircraft can be modelled as a multi-mode, reverberant EM environment. The presence of people on board will damp its resonances, thus lowering their Q-factors and increasing the propagation loss between two points. The relevant parameter is the mean absorption cross-section of the body, which is of the order of one sixth of body surface area. For EM simulations of aircraft it is necessary to develop broadband numerical phantoms to represent the people on the aircraft. These should be at an appropriate level of detail somewhere between millimetre-resolution dosimetry phantoms and homogenous dielectric spheres.

AB - At microwave frequencies, an aircraft can be modelled as a multi-mode, reverberant EM environment. The presence of people on board will damp its resonances, thus lowering their Q-factors and increasing the propagation loss between two points. The relevant parameter is the mean absorption cross-section of the body, which is of the order of one sixth of body surface area. For EM simulations of aircraft it is necessary to develop broadband numerical phantoms to represent the people on the aircraft. These should be at an appropriate level of detail somewhere between millimetre-resolution dosimetry phantoms and homogenous dielectric spheres.

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M3 - Conference contribution

BT - URSI2011, The XXXth Triennial General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science

PB - International Union of Radio Science

CY - Istanbul, Turkey

ER -