Reason for nan energy levels?

[MPCEngineer]

Hi All,

Trying to simulate a normal mode helix which looks good with addcurve but the antenna impedance is only 2 ohms compared with 36 ohms in practice.

I want to try simulating the helix as a copper to see if the copper restance would increase the antenna impedance. I use small cyclinders to build the helix.

I have tried copper material and PEC material but I always get -nan as the energy level.

Checking the forum I can not see any reason. Any thought on why I get -nan energy levels??

Script file, PEC-dump, CSX dump

[MPCEngineer]

Has anyone used AddCylinder successfully? When constructing a helix using AddCylinder it seems to affect RunOpenEMS such that the reported energy levels are always 'nan'

If I change from AddCylinder to AddWire when constructing the helix then I do not get the 'nan' Energy Level and the simulation completes.

Does anyone know why using AddCylinder should cause RunOpenEMS to report 'nan' energy levels??

This is the output I get from RunOpenEMS when using AddCylinder with PEC material.


[@ 21s] Timestep: 2425 || Speed: 103.0 MC/s (8.998e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 42s] Timestep: 4850 || Speed: 106.8 MC/s (8.679e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 1m04s] Timestep: 7275 || Speed: 104.3 MC/s (8.890e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 1m27s] Timestep: 9700 || Speed: 98.3 MC/s (9.434e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 1m49s] Timestep: 12125 || Speed: 103.4 MC/s (8.971e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 2m12s] Timestep: 14550 || Speed: 95.9 MC/s (9.666e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 2m34s] Timestep: 16975 || Speed: 101.5 MC/s (9.131e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 2m56s] Timestep: 19400 || Speed: 102.9 MC/s (9.013e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 3m18s] Timestep: 21825 || Speed: 102.8 MC/s (9.016e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
[@ 3m40s] Timestep: 24250 || Speed: 102.1 MC/s (9.081e-03 s/TS) || Energy: ~ -nan (- 0.00dB)
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Thanks,

MPC.

[MPCEngineer]

I tried running the script in win10 and Linux but the AddCylinder helix still provides 'nan' as the energy level?

[thorsten]

Well I can reproduce the problem and no, the cylinder should not do this. I will have to investigate deeper, this is indeed very strange...

[thorsten]

First finding, the cylinder number 50 (and maybe every 50th) is flat like a circle and somehow openEMS does not like this...
So you should make sure to avoid this at the moment, but I have to find out why, because a circle like this should not do anything!

Edit: Doing this makes it run as expected:

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      if (Segment_number==(PerTurn_segments+1))
        Segment_number=1; 
        turn_number=turn_number+1;
        continue  # <-- 
      end;

Finding out why will be the challenge, but not for tonight anymore ...

[thorsten]

Okay openEMS is not directly responsible, your mesh is broken:

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>> min(diff(mesh.x))
ans = 0.050000
>> min(diff(mesh.y))
ans = 6.8580e-16
>> min(diff(mesh.z))
ans = 0.094186

That is a bad mesh in y-direction that the simple float accuracy could not handle...

I'm a bit angry at myself that this was not the first thing I checked as the mesh is usually the first suspect...

[MPCEngineer]

Thorsten, big thanks,

It now works by removing DetectEdges.

You idea of checking the mesh minimum distances is very useful check!

min(diff(mesh.x))
min(diff(mesh.y))
min(diff(mesh.z))

I would recommend using it in any scripts.

Unfortunately using a copper material does not make a big difference in the impedance of the helix. I get Zin of 2.9R at resonance where as a physical sample is 36R. Amazingly the tuned frequency now matches physical results really well.

Thanks,

MPC.