Re: [FEMM] Serious doubt about FEMM3.3 XY graphics

[David Meeker <dmeeker@xxxxxxxx>]

agnaldo@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Dear dave I´m using FEMM3.3 for performing the calculatins of my doctoral 
> thesis, but I´ve recently found a strange thing: when I anlyse the results of 
> an axisymetric modelling, and ask the vector potential graphics, the resulting 
> graphics come with the title "Flux, Wb". How can it be? If in the list of XY 
> plots, I click on the "potential", how can appear a result of Magnetic flux 
> (measured in Weber)and not the vector potential (measured in Weber/m)?
> Otherwise, if I ask the XY graphics of the potential vector of a planar model, 
> the results come called potential, measured in Weber/m, as I expect.
> This definition is very important to my simulations, could you (or anybody 
> else)help me?
>
>                         Agnaldo
Rather than A, the XY plots for the axisymmetric case report 2*Pi*r*A, 
which is in the units of Webers.  I do this because for axisymmetric 
problems, flux lines are actually level contours of 2*Pi*r*A, rather 
than level contours of A.

Also see: 
http://femm.foster-miller.net/pipermail/femm/2000-September/000218.html

Dave.