JMA Wireless

Project Title: RF Antenna Radome Profile Optimization for Wind Load

Project Summary: The current Radome profiles that are manufactured by JMA Wireless experience high wind loads that impose substantial structural loading on the towers they are attached to. The initial task of our team is to use the wind tunnel we have at Syracuse University to perform wind load testing on the current Radome models used by JMA. We are to then obtain optimal CFD simulation parameters that match our experimental data and use those parameters to develop new scalable Radome profiles that yield a reduced wind load for wind observed at 150 km/h. In developing our prototypes, our team will adhere to design considerations that ensure we will not be compromising either the protection capabilities of the Radome model or the manufacturability constraints pertaining to the large-scale production of the new prototype(s).