Re: [Meep-discuss] help

2009-09-11 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
This is the way you write mathematical operations in the scheme programming language which MEEP uses. Basically (/ sy -2) means - sy/2. Check out this website for more information on the syntax in scheme: http://www.math.grin.edu/~stone/scheme-web/table-of-contents.html Hope this helps, George

Re: [Meep-discuss] Ellipses with a derterminate thickness

2009-08-20 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
Hello, If I'm not mistaken you can do that by setting one of the axis of the ellipsoid to infinity (or very large). When you take a finite thickness slice of it, what you would effectively end up with is an elliptical cylinder. George Juan Pablo Vasco wrote: Dear Steven, i want to simulat

Re: [Meep-discuss] Meep .20 Debian Package?

2009-01-27 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
Check this post out: http://www.mail-archive.com/meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu/msg02321.html This works great for the 32 bit version of Ubuntu. Cheers, George Nathan wrote: > I just installed meep on my Ubuntu 10 system, and I noticed that the > version available is meep .10-2. Looking throu

[Meep-discuss] problem with Dielectric in field-functions

2009-01-07 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
Dear Steven and meep users, I have a question regarding the MEEP field-function examples as given in http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep_field-function_examples On my personal computer I have meep 0.10 and on a cluster computer I have access to meep-mpi 0.20-3. When I run the example

Re: [Meep-discuss] Python interface for libmeep-0.20-3 released !

2009-01-07 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
Dear Nizamov Shawkat, I have a question regarding your post about installing Meep 0.20-3. http://www.mail-archive.com/meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu/msg02321.html I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and followed your advice to add deb http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep/intrepid-debs ./ to my repo

Re: [Meep-discuss] Oscillation in reflection spectrum

2008-12-08 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
Dear Szymon, Just glancing at your graph, those oscillations resemble very much the oscillations in one of the Meep examples: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep_Tutorial/Band_diagram%2C_resonant_modes%2C_and_transmission_in_a_holey_waveguide The explanation they give is: "There is als

[Meep-discuss] meep symmetry and looping

2008-06-18 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
Dear Steven and meep users, I have two questions. 1. Regarding symmetry: if I have a symmetric slab lying in the z=0 plane and place a Gaussian Hz source at (0, 0, 0), then I can exploit the following symmetries (set! symmetries (list (make mirror-sym (direction X) (phase -1)) (make mi

[Meep-discuss] Band Diagram calculation by FDTD

2008-05-06 Thread G. O. Nikiforov
Dear Steven G. Johnson, I have a question regarding a part of your posting on Mon Dec 3 15:53:56 EST 2007 which I attach below: > First, don't use a single source point. Since your computational cell > contains multiple unit cells, your source point should actually be > replicated according t