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[carllacan]

Hi.

 

I'm trying to find the inductance of a conduction path on a certain geometry, using Ansys Maxwell.

 

As I usually do I have imported my model, assigned the materials and defined the currents and the region. The conduction paths are validated succesfully. However when I try to run the simulation I get the following error:

 

Error in calculating the conduction paths. The most likely reason is that the mesh of the source conductor is wrong.

 

I've tried to isolate the source of the problem. I've eliminated all objects in my model except for two of them (in contact with one another), and the error persists. However, when I eliminate one of those two objects and run the simulation with the other (assigning the currents to arbitrary faces) the simulation runs fine and I obtain a plausible inductance value. The error, apparently, comes from some kind of interaction between these two objects.

 

What could be causing this? Is there any way I can "fix" the mesh?

 

Thank you.

[Charlotte Blair]

 

It sounds from your two object model that there is an issue with the geometry import. Try creating two objects manually inside of Maxwell and setup the problem as you did and see if it works. If it does then its an issue with the imported geometry. Also look at the documentation for Model Analysis and any bad geometry imports can be identified. It does not sound as if its a mesh issue.