// DATA FILE TO DESCRIBE STRUCTURE, MESH AND EXCITATION USED IN 3D FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD (FD-TD) // ============================================================================================================ // (1) NAME STRUCTURE // ============== Capacitor Stack // (2) STATE MATERIALS FOM WHICH THE DOMAIN IS COMPOSED // ================================================ // Number of distinct materials that composes the domain 2 //Material Properties: the first material should be the background or most common material present: // First line place the name of the material // On the next line place the Conductivity, Relative Permittivity and Susceptibility (in that order) // Material 1 Polythene 0.0000000001 2.25 0.0 // Material 2 Aluminium 35400000 1.0 0.000022 // (3) SET DIMENSIONS OF DOMAIN X,Y,Z: DIMENSIONS [0 to X,0 to Y,0 to Z] // ================================================================= 0.005 0.007 0.003 // (4) SET MESH // ======== // Cubic Yee Cell Dimensions (must divide neatly into all the dimensions) 0.0001 // (5) SET MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION // ========================= //The domain is initially assumed to be composed only with Material 1 //The material in each cell is overwritten as each cuboidal component is introduced // (a) State Number of Components 15 // (b) State, for each component, the material index (defined in (2)) and its region [x1 to x2,y1 to y2,z1 to z2] // (these dimensions should be compatable with the domain dimensions and the cell size) // Material x1 x2 y1 y2 z1 z2 //Component 1 : Plate 1 2 0.002 0.004 0.0010 0.0011 0.001 0.002 //Component 2 : Plate 2 2 0.002 0.004 0.0020 0.0021 0.001 0.002 //Component 3 : Plate 3 2 0.002 0.004 0.0030 0.0031 0.001 0.002 //Component 4 : Plate 4 2 0.002 0.004 0.0040 0.0041 0.001 0.002 //Component 5 : Plate 5 2 0.002 0.004 0.0050 0.0051 0.001 0.002 //Component 6 : Plate 6 2 0.002 0.004 0.0060 0.0061 0.001 0.002 //Component 7 : Extending wire from plate 1 2 0.001 0.002 0.0010 0.0011 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 8 : Extending wire from plate 2 2 0.001 0.002 0.0020 0.0021 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 9 : Extending wire from plate 3 2 0.001 0.002 0.0030 0.0031 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 10: Extending wire from plate 4 2 0.001 0.002 0.0040 0.0041 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 11: Extending wire from plate 5 2 0.001 0.002 0.0050 0.0051 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 12: Extending wire from plate 6 2 0.001 0.002 0.0060 0.0061 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 13: Connecting wire between 1 and 2 1 0.001 0.0011 0.0010 0.0020 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 14: Connecting wire between 3 and 4 1 0.001 0.0011 0.0030 0.0040 0.0014 0.0016 //Component 15: Connecting wire between 5 and 6 1 0.001 0.0011 0.0050 0.0060 0.0014 0.0016 // (6) SET DURATION OF SIMULATION (time in seconds) ( physical time, not computation time) // ========================== 0.00000000005 // (7) SET EXCITATION ! State directional voltage on each component // ============== (Voltage Source assumed uniform (over a component) and to be time-invariant. 0.0 values are ignored.) // Component Ex Ey Ez 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2 0.0 0.0 0.0 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 4 0.0 0.0 0.0 5 0.0 0.0 0.0 6 0.0 0.0 0.0 7 0.0 0.0 0.0 8 0.0 0.0 0.0 9 0.0 0.0 0.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 11 0.0 0.0 0.0 12 0.0 0.0 0.0 13 0.0 1000.0 0.0 14 0.0 1000.0 0.0 15 0.0 1000.0 0.0