Background Object

The background object defines the kind of material that surrounds your structure. And defines its volume. By default the volume is defined by the maximum distances of your structure.

Methods

Reset

Resets all internal values to their default settings.

 

Type ( enum materialType )

Sets the material type used for the background.

 

materialType can have one of the following values:

normal

Not  conducting, with relative permittivity epsilon and relative permeability mue.

pec

Perfect electric conducting material

 

Epsilon ( double value )

Defines the electric permittivity of the background material.

 

Mue ( double value )

Defines the permeability of the background material.

 

ElConductivity ( double value )

Defines the electric conductivity of the background material. This value is considered only for Low Frequency simulations.

 

XminSpace ( double value )

XmaxSpace ( double value )

YminSpace ( double value )

YmaxSpace ( double value )

ZminSpace ( double value )

ZmaxSpace ( double value )

Adds space to the lower or upper x, y or z boundary of the current calculation volume respectively.

 

ThermalType ( enum thermalMaterialType )

Sets the material type used for the background.

 

thermalMaterialType can have one of the following values:

normal

Not thermal conducting, with relative permittivity epsilon and relative permeability mue.

ptc

Perfect thermal conducting material

 

ThermalConductivity ( double  value )

Thermal conductivity is a property of materials that expresses the heat flux f (W/m2) that will flow through the material if a certain temperature gradient DT (K/m) exists over the material. The unit for value is W/K/m.

 

ApplyInAllDirections ( bool  flag )

Is at the moment used for the background dialog to identify if the xmin value should be applied in all directions.

Default Settings

Type ("pec")

Epsilon (1.0)

Mue (1.0)

XminSpace (0.0)

XmaxSpace (0.0)

YminSpace (0.0)

YmaxSpace (0.0)

ZminSpace (0.0)

ZmaxSpace (0.0)

ThermalType ("normal")

ThermalConductivity (0.0)

ApplyInAllDirections (False)

Example

With Background

.Reset

.Type ("normal")

.Epsilon ("eps")

.Mue (1.0)

.XminSpace (50.0)

.XmaxSpace (50.0)

.YminSpace (25.0)

.YmaxSpace (25.0)

.ZminSpace (50.0)

.ZmaxSpace (50.0)

.ThermalType ("normal")

.ThermalConductivity (0.0)

.ApplyInAllDirections (False)

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