OOF2: The Manual

Name

InPlanePolarization

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Description

The Plane Polarization Equation is


      \[ {\bf D}_z = 0 \]
    (6.123)

where \(\bf
  D\) 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.)



[25] Also known as the negative of the z-component of the electric field.