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

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