metallic medium magnetic loss tangent in FEKO

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi,

 

I want to simulate with metal material including the loss. I'm not sure how I setup the metal on metal material such as copper. When I see the copper properties in Altair media library, there is zero magnetic loss tangent. This is first time I considering the metal material loss because my simulation shows a lot of reflection by metal surface. How I can define the metal loss? 

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  • Mel
    Mel Altair Community Member
    edited June 2019

    Hi Leo

     

    See the ExamplesGuide model of the dipole and lossy metallic cuboid for how to construct a lossy metallic surface.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2019

    Thanks Mel.

     

    I just want to make sure... Do you mean 'Set the conductivity of the metal to 1e2.' is enough to simulate lossy metal condition?

  • Mel
    Mel Altair Community Member
    edited June 2019

    Hi Leo

     

    You will set the conductivity to your material of choice. There is a media library as well that you can choose from, e.g. copper, gold, aluminium, etc.

    Then you must also specify the thickness.

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