On the treatment of wire antennas near an elliptic cylinder

Presented in this paper are two hybrid methods for combining the method of moments (MM) with other techniques. Both these hybrid techniques treat the problem of thin linear antennas near an elliptic cylinder. The principle aim of this work was to compine the MM treatment of wire antennas with the GTD. The results are then verified using the hybrid moment method-eigenfunction solution (EIG-MM).-Results are shown for the radiation pattern and the input impedance of arrays of dipoles near an elliptic cylinder, as well as for a single dipole. For arrays, results for the mutual impedance are also shown.