Method for high-intensity radiated field (HIRF) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) analysis of a vehicle

1. A method for modeling electromagnetic characteristics of a vehicle having electrical components, the method comprising:

generating a parallel plate waveguide model having a first waveguide port and a second waveguide port;

inserting a vehicle model for the vehicle within the parallel plate waveguide model, wherein the vehicle model has a plurality of lumped ports corresponding to the electrical components on-board the vehicle;

executing an electromagnetic field solver on the first waveguide port, the second waveguide port, and the plurality of lumped ports, wherein the electromagnetic field solver produces a first output data;

determining a scaling factor between a first power level configured to excite the first waveguide port and the second waveguide port and a second power level configured to excite the plurality of lumped ports;

producing a scattering parameter (S-parameter) model for the vehicle from the first output data, wherein the S-parameter model includes a plurality of S-parameter ports;

generating a plurality of excitation signals at the plurality of S-parameter ports, wherein the scaling factor has been applied to the plurality of excitation signals; and

executing a time-domain circuit simulation to model the electromagnetic characteristics of the vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle model is predetermined.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising saving the S-parameter model in a non-transitory computer-readable storage, wherein the S-parameter model is reusable for executing a system level transient simulation utilizing the S-parameter model.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the S-parameter model is saved in the storage as a Touchstone file.

5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising retrieving the S-parameter model from the storage prior to generating the plurality of excitation signals.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each lumped port of the plurality of lumped ports is configured to have electrical properties corresponding to an on-board system of the vehicle and wherein the first waveguide port and the second waveguide port are configured to simulate a plane wave illumination of the vehicle.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second power level is approximately 0.5 Watts and the first power level is determined based on a cross-section of a waveguide defined by the parallel plate waveguide model and an incident plane wave generated by the electromagnetic field solver at the first waveguide port or the second waveguide port.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating the plurality of excitation signals at the plurality of S-parameter ports includes connecting a circuit element to each S-parameter port to generate an excitation signal.

9. A system for modeling electromagnetic characteristics of a vehicle, the system comprising:

a memory;

one or more processors;

a non-transitory computer-readable medium in the memory, the computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

generating a parallel plate waveguide model having a first waveguide port and a second waveguide port;

inserting a vehicle model for the vehicle within the parallel plate waveguide model, wherein the vehicle model has a plurality of lumped ports corresponding to electrical components on-board the vehicle;

executing an electromagnetic field solver on the first waveguide port, the second waveguide port, and the plurality of lumped ports, wherein the electromagnetic field solver produces a first output data;

determining a scaling factor between a first power level configured to excite the first waveguide port and the second waveguide port, and a second power level configured to excite the plurality of lumped ports;

producing a scattering parameter (S-parameter) model for the vehicle from the first output data, wherein the S-parameter model includes a plurality of S-parameter ports;

generating a plurality of excitation signals at the plurality of S-parameter ports, wherein the scaling factor has been applied to the plurality of excitation signals; and

executing a time-domain circuit simulation to model the electromagnetic characteristics of the vehicle.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the vehicle model is predetermined.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the system is further configured to perform the operation of saving the S-parameter model in a storage, wherein the S-parameter model is reusable for executing a system level transient simulation utilizing the S-parameter model.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the S-parameter model is saved in the storage as a Touchstone file.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the system is further configured to perform the operation of retrieving the S-parameter model from the storage prior to generating the plurality of excitation signals.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein each lumped port of the plurality of lumped ports is configured to have electrical properties corresponding to an on-board component of the vehicle and wherein the first waveguide port and the second waveguide port are configured to simulate a plane wave illumination of the vehicle.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the second power level is approximately 0.5 Watts and the first power level is determined based on a cross-section of a waveguide defined by the parallel plate waveguide model and an incident plane wave generated by the electromagnetic field solver at the first waveguide port or the second waveguide port.

16. The system of claim 9 , wherein the generating the plurality of excitation signals at the plurality of S-parameter ports includes connecting a circuit element to each S-parameter port to generate an excitation signal.

17. A method for modeling electromagnetic characteristics of a vehicle having electrical components, the method comprising:

generating a scattering parameter (S-parameter) model for the vehicle utilizing a parallel plate waveguide model having a first waveguide port and a second waveguide port and a vehicle model having a plurality of lumped ports corresponding to the electrical components on-board the vehicle;

determining a scaling factor between a first power level utilized to excite the first waveguide port and second waveguide port and a second power level utilized to excite the plurality of lumped ports;

executing a system level transient simulation utilizing the S-parameter model for the vehicle and the scaling factor.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the generating the S-parameter model comprises:

generating the parallel plate waveguide model;

inserting the vehicle model for the vehicle within the parallel plate waveguide model; and

executing an electromagnetic field solver on the first waveguide port, the second waveguide port, and the plurality of lumped ports, wherein the electromagnetic field solver produces a first output data; and

producing the S-parameter model for the vehicle from the first output data, wherein the S-parameter model includes a plurality of S-parameter ports.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the vehicle model is predetermined.

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the executing of the system level transient simulation comprises:

generating a plurality of excitation signals at the plurality of S-parameter ports, wherein the scaling factor has been applied to the plurality of excitation signals; and

executing a time-domain circuit simulation to model the electromagnetic characteristics of the vehicle.