[Vo]:electrostatic finite element software

2016-01-26 Thread Jeff Driscoll
Does anyone have access to electrostatics software package and have time to do a finite element analysis on a 3-D part to determine the electrostatic field potential? Specifically the JPEG in the link below shows a grouping of protons and neutrons. I mainly need to figure out which protons have

Re: [Vo]:electrostatic finite element software

2016-01-26 Thread Bob Higgins
Jeff, I think you will have trouble with finite element analysis of that structure, and the results will likely depend a lot on some of the assumptions. The first problem is how you are going to model the charge of the proton. For example, will you presume the charge is concentrated at the

Re: [Vo]:electrostatic finite element software

2016-01-26 Thread Jeff Driscoll
I agree, this is going to be a trial and error thing. I've done a lot of stress/strain and thermal finite element modeling (I'm a mechanical engineer) but never electrostatic.The main thing is just to see what happens and keep on trying different assumptions. First thing is to try all the