awslabs / palace

3D finite element solver for computational electromagnetics
https://awslabs.github.io/palace/dev
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Wave port boundaries with multiple mode indices #171

Closed sebastiangrimberg closed 7 months ago

sebastiangrimberg commented 8 months ago

It should be possible to define multiple wave ports to the same set of boundary attributes with different mode indices, in order to simultaneously postprocess scattering parameters into each of the modes or drive systems with a sum of the different incident mode shapes. The impedance boundary condition with coefficient i k_n \mu^{-1} would have to be chosen for one of the modes (or the average?). For most engineering cases where you care about multiple modes, the k_n should likely be similar for both modes (even-odd, for example).