Dr. David C. Jenn
Specializing in radar systems and
electromagnetic scattering and radiation
Mailing address:
395
Del Monte Center
Suite 136
Monterey, CA
93940
Short courses are available on demand in the areas of
- Radar Cross Section and Stealth Technology
- Radar Systems
- Antennas and Propagation
Current Position:
Professor and Director of the Microwave
& Antenna Laboratory
Department
of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Naval
Postgraduate School
Monterey,
CA 93943
email:
jenn@nps.navy.mil, jenn@nps.edu
Much of the material here, including the software, is also available at
www.nps.navy.mil/Faculty/jenn, but that web site is subject to security blockages.
For a short curriculum vitae see
here.
Author of the book:
Radar and Laser Cross Section Engineering
AIAA Education Series, 1995
(Call 1-800-682-AIAA for information)
Errata sheet for the the 1st edition in PDF format is
here
Second edition now available!
Errata sheet for the 2nd edition in PDF format is
here
Free Matlab software!
(Zipped files using WinZip 7.0)
2D phased array antenna pattern calculations
With GUI version
2.2
for Matlab 6.5 on a PC
Without GUI for any Matlab
platform
- Radar detection range and jamming calculations
RADJAM. (With and
without GUI bundled together.)
- Bistatic radar system analysis program
BIDARSA
(Version 1.1 with GUI for Matlab 6.5)
- Radar cross section calculations using the physical optics approximation
With GUI
version
3.2.1 now available for Matlab 6.5 (or higher) on a PC
-
bugs fixed in function "facetRCS.m"
-
improved stereolithographic (*.stl) file import and export
-
if you have GUI problems with Matlab 7 try running with the display
in the 16 bit mode
-
more target models included
Without GUI (only to version 2.2) for any Matlab
platform
With GUI-to-without GUI file format
translators
(translators are bundled in the GUI version)
- and much more!
Course Materials
(Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering)
EC2600 (Electromagnetic
Field & Waves, Winter '02)
EO2652 (Applied
Electromagnetics, Winter '02)
EO3602 (Electromagnetic
Radiation, Scattering and Propagation, Winter '99)
EC3630 (Radiowave
Propagation, Spring '04)
EC4610 (Radar
Systems, Summer '09)
EC4630 (Radar
Cross Section Prediction and Reduction, Fall '02)
These notes are not regularly updated. See
the NPS webpage
www.nps.navy.mil/Faculty/jenn
for the most recent versions of notes and seminar presentations.
Some Ongoing Thesis Topics
- Wireless beamforming for distributed phased arrays
- General study of antenna performance on unmanned air vehicles (UAVs)
- Specular radar absorbing material (RAM) design
- Radar cross section (RCS) code development
- Phased array mutual coupling compensation techniques
- Array antenna software development
- Microwave powered micro-air vehicle (MAVs)
- Antennas for land mine detection radar and ground penetrating radar
- Direction finding (DF) antenna development
- Urban and indoor propagation study for wireless and UAV applications
- Random arrays for bistatic hitchhiker radar
Descriptions of some of the topics are available in PDF format here.
Research Areas
- Micro-Air Vehicles (MAVs) Powered by Microwaves Transmitted From a Ground
Station
- Modeling And Simulation of Aerodynamic Radomes
- Urban Propagation and Calculation of Building Wall Losses
Direction Finding Arrays
- Digital Antennas Using Commercially Available Wireless Base Station Chips
- Radar Cross Section Analysis and Prediction
Radar System Simulation and Imaging
Publication Reprints
A list
of selected reprints from journals and conferences
For more information, corrections or comments contact dcjenn@dcjenn.com
(Last updated 12/1/09)