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October 22, 2021 at 6:03 pm
Guilin Sun
Ansys Employee
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Basically, whether you want a broadband or single-frequency result, the simulation with pulse source is much faster than using a sinusoidal wave, which will need an initial transient time, and then long steady state time in order to get the result at only a single frequency.