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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation Photonics RCWA results different from FDTD Reply To: RCWA results different from FDTD

Amrita Pati
Ansys Employee

For what values of k-vectors do you see the solver crashing? Also, what does it say in the log file (stored in the same directory as the simulation file, has the name simulationfilename_p0.log) when the solver crashes? I believe the use tangent vector field was introduced in 2023 R1.

Regards,
Amrita