Reverberation Chamber as a Multivariate Process: FDTD Evaluation of Correlation Matrix and Independent Positions

This paper evaluates the mode-stirring efficiency in terms of uncorrelated positions of a mechanical stirrer operating inside a reverberation chamber (RC). The actual RC is simulated and viewed as a multivariate random process: the chamber field is sampled in a lattice of spatial points distributed uniformly over a volume of arbitrary dimensions. By adopting such a grid, the stirrer efficiency is then computed through the correlation matrix, accounting for the residual correlation between stirrer positions. The second-order statistics are calculated averaging over the sampling volume. Results are presented for two stirrers that move in both synchronous and interleaved mode. A comparison with the traditional circular correlation (CC) method, for the determination of the uncorrelated positions, is done showing how CC overestimates stirrer efficiency.