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# Re: [femm] Can femm model this?

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- Subject: Re: [femm] Can femm model this?
- From: David Meeker <dmeeker@ieee.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:05:55 -0400
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wigstonmagna wrote:

> `Hi,
> I'm a neophyte femm user, and am thankful to David for creating
> this fine package!
> I want to simulate a coil placed between two flat parallel metal
> plates, with the coil's long axis parallel to the plates. I want to
> electrically connect the inductance in parallel with the capacitor
> (the plates) and drive the assembly at AC.
> Can this be both constructed and simulated in axisymmetric mode?
> -Andrew
> `

Problems that FEMM can simulate have to be either axially symmetric (e.g. a solenoid, speaker driver, etc.) or approximated as planar (e.g. many types of motors). Although your coil may be axisymmetric, the entire arrangement isn't axisymmetric--you can't model it directly with FEMM.

    --
    David Meeker
    dmeeker@ieee.org
    http://femm.berlios.de/dmeeker

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