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Electric field

Posted 31.01.2022, 06:32 GMT-5 2 Replies

Francesca Cattai
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Hello everyone, I am new in comsol. For my thesis I need to observe the propagation of the electric field emitted by an UVC led. In particular, we don't want to reconstruct the photodiode but simply to say to comsol that a spherical wave of initial amplitude E0 note starts from a given surface. How can I do that?

2 Replies Last Post 03.02.2022, 10:50 GMT-5
Robert Koslover Certified Consultant
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Posted: 2 years ago 31.01.2022, 15:42 GMT-5
Updated: 2 years ago 31.01.2022, 15:52 GMT-5

If you truly wish to simplify the problem to the extent that all the physics of interest to you can be modeled as a "spherical wave" (which, we note, for EM waves, does not really exist in nature) with some initial (presumably scalar?) amplitude , then it seems to me that you don't need to build a Comsol model at all. Set and plot E vs. r, for various values of t. Note that , , and is the radius of your spherical source. As you can see from the equation here, when and . E falls off linearly with 1/r, just as it should, while also oscillating appropriately in time and space. Did you, perhaps, want to include a more detailed view of the actual physics of your source than that? Note that if you don't care about polarization, you could simply set a boundary condition (let in the equation for E above) on a spherical surface in a Comsol model using the classical scalar wave equation. This is included in all Comsol packages. Go to File, New, Model Wizard, 3D, Mathematics, Classical PDEs, and then Wave Equation (waeq).

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If you truly wish to simplify the problem to the extent that all the physics of interest to you can be modeled as a "spherical wave" (which, we note, for EM waves, does not really exist in nature) with some initial (presumably scalar?) amplitude E_0, then it seems to me that you don't need to build a Comsol model at all. Set E=E_0(r_0/r)cos(k(r-r_0)-\omega t) and plot E vs. r, for various values of t. Note that k=2\pi/\lambda, \omega = 2\pi f, and r_0 is the radius of your spherical source. As you can see from the equation here, E=E_0 when r=r_0 and t=0. E falls off linearly with 1/r, just as it should, while also oscillating appropriately in time and space. Did you, perhaps, want to include a more detailed view of the actual physics of your source than that? Note that if you don't care about polarization, you could simply set a boundary condition (let r=r_0 in the equation for E above) on a spherical surface in a Comsol model using the classical scalar wave equation. This is included in all Comsol packages. Go to File, New, Model Wizard, 3D, Mathematics, Classical PDEs, and then Wave Equation (waeq).
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Posted: 2 years ago 03.02.2022, 10:50 GMT-5

Thank you very much for the support, I will try to do what you advised me, hoping to succeed. Greetings Francesca

Thank you very much for the support, I will try to do what you advised me, hoping to succeed. Greetings Francesca

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