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Search for modes around... in Mode Analysis (RF module)
Posted 10 nov 2014, 06:06 GMT-5 RF & Microwave Engineering Version 4.4 6 Replies
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I'm trying to obtain the dispersion relation of a graphene waveguide which I previously analyzed via Matlab and on paper.
In order to do this I set up a parametric sweep on frequency (angular pulse, in fact) and with Mode Analysis module I get what I need. I selected as Transform the option "Out of plane wavenumber", which is imported from a Matlab script to set up the parameter "Search for modes around".
The problem is that I cannot include the Interpolation function that I created as from Matlab files because of the error:
"COMSOL error: unknow function name. Property: shift (search for modes around)"
and by fixing it as parameter or embedding a numerical value makes the solver unable to evaluate the desired mode over a wide range of frequencies, while for small ranges the result is acceptable.
Any ideas on how fix the problem or better ways to procede?
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I have been trying to do the same thing as well (i.e. updating the value of search for mode around). I am very new to Comsol and Matlab. If you dont mind, could you please give me some tips on how to write the matlab code to update this value?
Thank you so so much.
Ngoc
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core code strings to solve the problem are the following
model.study('std1').feature('mode').set('shift', num2str(wavenumber));
model.sol('sol1').feature('e1').set('shift',num2str(wavenumber));
where wavenumber is the result of the previous simulation obtained from mpglobal();
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Thank you so much for your reply. I have managed to modify the search around value. As I would like to run a wavelength sweep, I have created a for loop to do this and update the search around value accordingly. However, I found that If i do this, my matlab code is not very robust, it takes just forever to run.
Do you know anyway that I can update the search around value using parametric sweep rather than for loop?
Thank you.
Ngoc
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Livelink seem to be very demanding and much more slow than desktop version.
I solved using a workstation in my university; I believe that frequency sweep should be done in other study modules, perhaps, but in my situation I could not replicate results in other way than using Mode Analysis.
Sorry if I could not be much helpful
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Thanks a lot for your help.
Ngoc