What does error 116 mean?

Yolanda Gonzalez

Hello, 

I am trying to simulate an antenna in FEKO; however, when I try to run the simulation, I get this error message:

ERROR 116: The ratio of the segment radius to length is too large

What does this error mean? How can I fix it?

Thanks, 

Yolanda Gonzalez 

Evan_Urban

Greetings Yolanda,

This error comes up when the radius of the wire is large compared to its length, so the thin wire approximation is not satisfied. To fix this I recommend decreasing your wire's radius to less than a third of the length of wire. For example, if your wire length is lambda/10 then your wire radius should be less than lambda/30.

I hope this helps!

Respectfully,
Evan