Savant Features.
Savant is a sophisitcated computational electromagnetics (CEM) tool for computing the installed performance of antennas as mounted on electrically large platforms. Several powerful features in Savant make the tool easy to use and apply to the most challenging problems.
- Sophisticated GUI for setting up, running and interpreting Savant simulation
- Support for a variety of CAD formats including ACAD Facet, Stereolithography, Wavefront OBJ, IGES, WIPL-D, Gmsh, and IDEAS Universal.
- Library of parametrically defined antennas including common antenna types such as monopoles, dipoles, isotropic, hemitropic, directive beam, loop, etc
- Support for representing free space antenna patterns as far-field radiation patterns or as current sources. Current source models are necessary when the antenna is electrically close to a surface.
- Free space antenna formats can be narrowband or wideband (i.e., multi-frequency).
- Multi-layer material models for penetrable materials such as coatings, radomes and walls.
- Ability to compute far-field, near-field, and antenna-to-antenna coupling.
- Visual ray trace feature for aiding the analyst in understanding the ray interactions with the platform. Ray filter to specific far-field and near-field observation points supported.
- Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD) wedge correction feature.
- Divergence factor correction included for curved surfaces (e.g., reflector antennas).
- Creeping Wave. Savant is the only commercially available SBR software with this feature.
- Smart power normalization feature.
- Multi-core support. The user can specify number of cores to use for a computation through the GUI.
- Dynamic zoning feature for major acceleration of computations involving many current sources.
- Extensive Help documentation including several tutorials.
- Advanced plotting capabilities including built in Cartesian and Polar plots with CAD overlay feature.