Example That Uses Far Field Links

This section describes linking an HFSS project to an HFSS-IE project while using the common feature of assigning Far Field Wave excitation.

The horn antenna enclosed in an air box in the figure below represents the source project designed in HFSS.

Model of a horn antenna enclosed in an air box

The dish/reflector in the following figure is the target project designed in HFSS-IE.

Model of a dish reflector.

A perfect E-boundary is assigned on the reflector.

Model of a dish reflector with perfect E-field boundary.

The Far Field Wave Options panel has the following settings.

Incident Wave Source dialog. Far FIeld Wave Options tab.

From the Setup Link option, the fields are set as shown in the figure to link the target to the source project (the horn antenna).

General tab, Source Design field defined.

A sample solution setup for this project is shown below:

Solution fields defined.

The resulting J Fields (magnetic fields) after solving the project are shown below.

J field overlay on a dish reflector model.