Analysis of a wire antenna in the presence of a body of revolution

The problem of an arbitrarily oriented thin-wire antenna located near a body of revolution is analyzed. The usual integrodifferential equation for a thin wire in unbounded space is generalized to account for scattering from the nearby body. The presence of the body is accounted for by a numerical dyadic Green's function. The modified wire equation is solved by standard numerical techniques to obtain the current distribution on the wire. The effects of various bodies on input admittance are compared with results for an isolated antenna. Measured and theoretical input admittance data for a monopole near several different bodies of revolution are found to be in good agreement.