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Please contact Ansys technical support.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The simulation is for a cross section of a coplanar stripline resonator to extract its inductance under AC drive. The substrate (sapphire) is implemented as an anisotropic dielectric as per the following paper: J. Krupka <em>et al.<\/em>, Meas. Sci. Technol. <strong>10<\/strong>, 387 (1999). The anisotropic model for this design has been used and found compatible in a number of other simulation software and solvers under Ansys (HFSS, Maxwell 2D electrostatics). Is there a reason why this is not working for Maxwell 2D eddy current? If not, is there a setting that I need to toggle that allows me to do this calculation?<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Chi Zhang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-364295","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-anisotropic","topic-tag-eddy-current-1","topic-tag-maxwell-2d"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hi,When running an eddy current simulation in Ansys Maxwell 2D I encountered the following error message:Solving for EddyCurrent adaptive pass 1, process solver2d error: Internal Solver Error: &#039;Can not multiply tensor with scalar!&#039;. 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