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March 20, 2024 at 3:35 pm
Guilin Sun
Ansys Employee
In your case ther unit cell (one period) contains several teeth with different size, right? using grating analysis gets the result from infinite numbber of periods. If you want results from finite number of periods, yes you have to use "assume periodic" to approximate it.
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