On Feb 15, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Ian Buss wrote: > I am interested in investigating the flux distribution over a plane > outside a certain scattering structure. Is there a quick way to access > the flux-region data usefully in order to produce a hdf5 output file > showing the distribution of energy at a particular frequency over the > plane?
No. All the information is there, in principle, when you do save-flux, but it is not in an easily decipherable format (it is basically just a dump of the internal data structures). I definitely would like to change this in the future, but there's nothing like what you want right now. > In a related point I know that unless you order it so to do, Meep will > not store field data in a complex form. To calculate flux spectra > however (E* x H) one must take the Fourier transform of the time- > evolved > fields which will result in complex forms for each field component. > However when you save the flux-region data in hdf5 I see only 2 field > components per plane. Can anyone shed light on what Meep is actually > doing here to calculate the flux at each frequency? Each field component is actually an array of complex numbers, stored as real/imaginary pairs. Steven _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
