[Meep-discuss] dpwr units

2009-03-21 Thread rand mouradi
Dear Prof. Johnson and meep users, I wonder how can we convert the dpwr results and Ez to the SI units.  I tried to review the meep-discuss archives and the meep references but it was not clear to me how to convert them.  I need to use these numbers in the SI units and rely on them for my

[Meep-discuss] about dpwr and pml

2009-02-28 Thread rand mouradi
Dear Prof. Johnson and meep users, I'm using meep .20.  Whenever I increase the size of my layers on the x-axis dirrection or the size of the cell in the x-dirrection I'm getting less energy density dpwr even I'm not changing the source specifications or distance.  I'm wondering if this is due

[Meep-discuss] frequency

2009-01-06 Thread rand mouradi
Dear Prof. Steven and Meep users, I'm worried about my frequency setting in Meep, in the tutorial it says that frequency in meep is in units of 2πc/a, so if c is the speed of light in this equation (not 1 as it sometimes says), then I need to convert my frequency according to this formula, so

[Meep-discuss] custom made geometry

2008-11-24 Thread rand mouradi
Dear Steven and Meep users I'm want to create a model with arbitrary (or custom made geometry). I just want to know if I can define such a thing in meep. I only see block, sphere, cylinder, and a a-block-like geometries available. So please let me know if I can define my own and how, or if

[Meep-discuss] error in meep

2008-11-18 Thread rand mouradi
Dear Dr. Steven and meep users, I'm a new meep user, and I'm trying to run my program after I defined a function and trying to get the integral of it. But I'm having the following error: ERROR: In procedure /: ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1: #(-0.05 -0.45 -0.05) I'm not sure if I need

[Meep-discuss] (no subject)

2008-11-01 Thread rand mouradi
Hello, I'm having trouble whenever I run my program I'm getting this error ERROR: Unbound variable: D-conductivity when I deleted everything related to D-conductivity in my program it was running fine.  Can you help me how to represent this term in Meep (I used the formula provided in meep