{"id":393202,"date":"2024-11-07T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/what-does-frequency-domain-profile-and-power-monitor-display\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:00:26","slug":"what-does-frequency-domain-profile-and-power-monitor-display","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/what-does-frequency-domain-profile-and-power-monitor-display\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Frequency-domain Profile and Power monitor display?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reference manual section on the Frequency-domain Profile and Power monitor somehow manages to avoid actually stating what results the monitor gives! Is anyone able to clarify? I can see that it splits up the results into separate components for each frequency (and you can view them by using the slider at the bottom right), and you can view results relating to &#8216;E&#8217;, &#8216;H&#8217; and the poynting vector &#8211; but it is not clear what the results being displayed (in the image below for example, in which the colour scale has no description or units labelled&#8230;) actually are. For example, if it is the E field, how is that useful since the E field will be rapidly oscillating in time (being a wave&#8230;)?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/07-11-2024-1730992830-mceclip0.jpg\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your help!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-393202","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-frequency-domain-1","topic-tag-photonics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The reference manual section on the Frequency-domain Profile and Power monitor somehow manages to avoid actually stating what results the monitor gives! Is anyone able to clarify? 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