Numerical Simulation of Reverberation Chamber Parameters Affecting the Received Power Statistics

Abstract

This paper presents a reverberation chamber (RC) numerical modeling based on a discrete plane wave representation. In particular, the attention is focused on those parameters that may influence the field statistics. It is shown that a random choice of the angle of incidence, the initial phase, and the polarization in a particular range and a proper choice of the number of the plane waves allow us to reproduce the same behavior of experimental data. Both experimental and numerical field data are checked applying the Anderson–Darling (AD) test. More precisely, we count the frequencies where the received power statistics is rejected by the adopted goodness-of-fit test. This paper shows a correspondence between numerical and experimental parameters affecting the occurrence of the rejected frequencies, also giving a probability density function for the observed occurrence. The analysis is completed showing that the AD test rejection does not compromise the chamber use for typical radiated emission or radiated susceptibility tests.