OOF2: The Manual
Name
InPlanePolarization
Description
The Plane Polarization Equation
is
where is the Total_Polarization. Activating the Plane Polarization equation is one way to reduce a three dimensional problem to two dimensions. Its role in electrostatic problems is analogous to the role of the Plane_Stress equation in elasticity problems.
When the Plane Polarization equation is activated, there will be no
polarization in the z direction, although the out-of-plane gradient
of the Voltage[25], Voltage_z
, may be
nonzero and will have to be solved for.
(For obscure historical reasons, the name of the Plane Polarization
equation is InPlanePolarization
, which is not in
keeping with the names of other equivalent equations in OOF2. It
should be Plane_Polarization
. We apologize for
the confusion.)