On Apr 17, 2008, at 7:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. I'd forgotten to include my signature in the > message. I'm a PhD student at York University working in the physical > layer research group for Prof. Jeremy Everard. Your modified ctl file > gives the correct answer but I'd be interested if you know why using a > prefect metal cylinder to enclose the region of interest doesn't > produce > the same result? I agree that using my original ctl file will > unnecessarily increase the size of the computational cell but I > assumed > that MEEP would still set the electric field to zero inside the metal > region.
Just making metal regions should work too; make sure you're using Meep version 0.10.1, or if you are using Meep 0.10 turn off epsilon averaging (which had a bug for metal regions). Steven _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss

