Expression¶

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This parameter is used to define a flux density tensor field by means of a Python expression within the post-process file.

The syntax is identical to a python based definition of a source field, see for example the section Expression for the definition of an electric field intensity. The expression must set a scalar value defining the density.

As a practical example we want to compute the electromagnetic energy fluxes of a time-harmonic electromagnetic field through domain interfaces. The flux density is the Poynting vector:

$\begin{eqnarray*} \VField{S} & = & \frac{1}{2} \VField{E} \times \VField{H} ^{*} \end{eqnarray*}$

This flux density field has two field parameters, namely the electric field intensity $\VField{E}$ and the magnetic field intensity $\VField{H}$ . The post-process may be defined as follows:

FluxIntegration {
  FieldBagPath = ...
  OutputFileName = ...
  InterfaceType = ...
  Python {
    IntegralName = "ElectromagneticEnergyFlux"
    Expression = "value = 0.5*cross(E, H.conj())"

    Parameter {
      Name = "E"
      FieldValue {
        Quantity = ElectricFieldStrength
      }
    }
    Parameter {
      Name = "H"
      FieldValue {
        Quantity = MagneticFieldStrength
      }
    }
  }
}

In the above, the tag FieldBagPath defines the underlying fieldbag which supplies the meshing for integration. When the underlying fieldbag contains more than one electromagnetic field, JCMsolve computes all fluxes separately. When choosing InterfaceType=ExteriorDomain the scattered fields $\VField{E}_{\scat}$ and $\VField{H}_{\scat}$ on the interior-exterior domain interfaces are passed.

As a second example, we want to compute overlap integrals of the form

$\begin{eqnarray*} S_{kl} & = & \int_{\Omega_{i}^{(2D)}} \frac{1}{2} \VField{E}_k \cdot \VField{H}^{*}_l \end{eqnarray*}$

on the cross-section domains of a two-dimensional problem with an infinite $z$ -direction. This requires to set InterfaceType=CrossSection.

This example involves two fieldbags: One fieldbag delivers the $\VField{E}$ , the other the magnetic field $\VField{H}$ . Surely, the two fieldbags may coincide. The JCM input snippet for this example looks like this:

FluxIntegration {
  FieldBagPath = ... # path to first fieldbag
  OutputFileName = ...
  InterfaceType = CrossSection
  Python {
    IntegralName = "OverlapCrossSectionEnergyFlux"
    Expression = "value = 0.5*cross(E, H.conj())"

    Parameter {
      Name = "E"
      FieldValue {
        Quantity = ElectricFieldStrength
      }
    }
    Parameter {
      Name = "H"
      FieldValue {
        FieldBagPath = ... # path to second fieldbag
        Quantity = MagneticFieldStrength
      }
    }
  }
}

The Python expression is identical to the previous example. However, the field index of the $\VField{E}$ -field parameter runs with the first integral index $k$ , where as the field index of the $\VField{H}$ -fields runs with the second integral index $l$ . This way the overlap flux integrals of all $\VField{E}$ -fields in the first fieldbag with all $\VField{H}$ -fields in the second fieldbag are computed.