Scattered Electric/Incident Electric Field Ratio/ Units

pmcardle
pmcardle Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

  I have a superposition of plane waves as my source and am calculating the scattered far field of an object. I would like to look at the ratio of the incident field and scattered far electric field. To calculate the incident electric field I am requesting a near field calculation which gives me the incident electric field in V/m.  I noticed that for far field results the electric field is given in Volts as opposed to V/m because of the factor of 1/R in the calculation of E_far. How should I accommodate this unit mismatch?

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  • Mel
    Mel Altair Community Member
    edited April 2019

    Hi pmcardle

     

    You could just request a scattered near field sufficiently far away from the object.

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