Fields Calculator Recipes

The following pages contain calculator recipes for deriving a number of commonly used output parameters from solved HFSS projects.

Calculating Numerical Quantities

Calculating the Current along a Wire or Trace

Calculating the Voltage Drop along a Line

Calculating Net Power Flow through a Surface

Calculating the Average of a Field Quantity on a Surface

Calculating the Peak Electrical Energy in a Volume

Calculating the Q of a Resonant Cavity

Calculating the Max Value of a Field Quantity in a Volume

Calculating Dielectric (or Conduction) Loss in a Volume

Calculating Quantities for 2D (Line) Plot Outputs

Plotting Wave Impedance along a Line

Plotting the Phase of E Tangential to a Line/Curve

Plotting the Maximum Magnitude of E Tangential to a Line/Curve

Calculating Quantities for 3D (Surface or Vector) Plot Outputs

Plotting the E-Field Magnitude Normal to a Surface

Calculating Quantities for 3D (Volume) Plot Outputs

Generating an Iso-Surface Contour for a Given Field Value

Calculating Quantities for Animated Outputs

Generating an Animation on Multiple Planes with a Positional Variable

Creating User Defined Named Expressions Library

Generating Cartesian/Cylindrical/Spherical-Coordinate Field-Components Library

Recipe Format

Each calculator recipe will be provided in the format shown below:

EXAMPLE: Title of Current Calculation

Description

The first paragraph will give a brief description of the calculation’s intent.

Usage Examples

The second paragraph will give an example of a project type on which the calculation might be useful. It may also comment upon the reasons such a calculation might be of interest.

Prerequisites

The third (optional) paragraph will indicate what must be present before doing the calculator operations, e.g., if certain geometry need to be generated to use in calculations.