March 19, 2024 at 8:41 pm
Guilin Sun
Ansys Employee
Thank you for finding the solution!
As the website says, "assume periodic" is an approximation, since the simulation with plane wave +periodic BCs assumes infinite periodicity. When it is approxiated to be finite number of periods for farfield projection, a window function is added. The result is similar to convolution of the simulated periodic fields and the window function.