What I expect to get is outgoing electric fields such as in this video. https://youtu.be/UOVwjKi4B6Y
See the first picture. I simply have a 0.1-meter metal wire along z-axis embedded in the air (sphere). I specified body force (current density rate 3) to be w*cos(wt) at the middle of the wire as a driving source.
Now I mainly have two questions.
- I did get outgoing radiation as a result. But there is an offset on Ez, as seen in the right panel of the second picture below. The red curve shows Ez on the x-y plane. This offset oscilates in time. I'm not sure where this offset is coming from. I suspected boundary conditions as there are not much else I can suspect in this simple case. The outer boundary should be open. I didn't specify any values in the outer boundary. Not exactly sure how it affects the calculation. Finer meshes, finer timesteps or lower system tolerances, all resulted in more or less the same result.
- If I set "electric damping coefficient = √ε0*μ0" for the outer boundary, which I expect to be an absorbing boundary, I get "incoming" wave from the boundary to the antenna. So I'm little confused about it as well. Does it happen in some cases?
Best,
Tom.
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