CSIR-NAL SPARCS: Software for RCS Prediction with/without RAS
(SPARCS: Stealth Platform Asymptotic Radar Cross-section Software)
Key features:
- Radar Cross Section Estimation Software using Hybrid Asymptotic High Frequency Methods (Geometric Optics, Physical Optics, SBR, UTD)
- Precise and fast RCS estimation of analytical models
- Parallelized numerical ray tracing based hybrid high frequency methods for RCS estimation of Complex Surfaces such as aircraft, UAV, missiles, ships
- RCS estimation with/without radar absorber coating/structures (RAM/RAS)
- Optimization of thickness profile of radar absorber towards payload reduction over broadband
- Enhanced design capabilities with retro-design of existing platforms
Software Validation Test Cases
(with Accurate Solvers/Measurement Results)
- Flat plate
- Cylinder
- Cone
- General Paraboloid of Revolution (GPOR)
- NASA Almond
- Software support for parallel computing, including GPU processing.
- Indigenous algorithms with enhanced precision and better run-times
- Cater to any physical phenomena w.r.t customer model/requirement
- User friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI).
- Supports STL (stereolithography) CAD format
- RCS data vs. frequency and aspect angle (Cartesian and Polar)
- Polarizations: Horizontal and Vertical
- Ray tracing/ray path visualization and access to ray path data
- Ray data to facilitate the perceptions of the scattering mechanisms towards low RCS design
Examples of Aerospace Structures in-built in the S/w:
- Analytically defined drop tank
- Typical nose-cone sectors
- Typical missile structures
- A typical fighter aircraft model