UCRL-MA-109338 Pt. I Numerical Electromagnetics Code - NEC-4 Method of Moments Part I: User’s Manual (NEC-4.1) Gerald J. Burke January 1992 EREULTION | SUR TTD 2. a TeeDISCLAIMER This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government, Neither the United States Government nor the University of California nor any of their employees. makes any warranty, express or implied, of assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy. completeness. or usefulness of any information, apparatus. product. or process disclosed. or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product. process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer. oF otherwise, does not necessarily constiture or imply. its endorsement. recommendation, fof favoring by the United States Government or the University of California. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or the University of California, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. ‘This report has been reproduced Available wo DOE and DOE contractors from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information P.O. Box 62. Oak Ridge. TN. 37831 Prices available from (615) 576-8401. FTS 626-8401 Availabe to the public from the [National Technical Information Service US, Depanment of Commerce '5285 Por Royal Rd Springfield. VA 22161 ‘Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-ENG-48.Preface NEC-4 is the latest version of The Numerical Electromagnetics Code — Method of Mo- ments that has been developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Army, ISEC and CECOM, the Naval Ocean Systems Center and the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. The development of the version NEC-4 was sponsored by the U.S. Army ISEC at Ft. Huachuca, AZ. The NEC Method of Moments code started as an advanced version of the Antenna Modeling Program (AMP) developed in the early 1970's by MBAssociates for the Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Ship Engineering Center, U.S. Army ECOM/Communications Systems, U.S. Army Strate- gic Communications Command and Rome Air Development Center, under Office of Naval Research Contract NO0014-71-C-0187. The documentation for NEC-4 consists of three volumes: Part I: NEC User's Manual Part II: NEC Program Description — Theory Part III: NEC Program Description — Code The documentation for successive versions of NEC has been prepared by updating manuals for previous versions of the code, starting from AMP. In some cases this led to minor changes in the original documents, while in many cases major modifications were required. Part III of the NEC-4 manual has not yet been completed, although the Code Manual for NEC-2 may be of some help in understanding parts of the NEC-4 code. Over the years many individuals have been contributors to AMP and NEC, and are acknowledged here as follows: R. W. Adams K. Hazard E. K. Miller M. J. Barth W. A. Johnson J. B. Morton H. Bosserman D. L. Knepp GM. Pierou J. K. Breakall D. L. Lager rE J.N. Brittingham A. P. Ludwigsen BS. Selden G. J. Burke R. J. Lytle R. W. Ziolkowski F. J. Deadrick Special mention is due to E. K. Miller who has provided the main driving force behind the development of the code and modeling techniques since the development of the code BRACT which preceded AMP. A. J. Poggio has also made major contributions to the code