{"id":408225,"date":"2025-02-03T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-hfss-and-circuit-reflectarry-co-simulation-workflow\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T19:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:29:06","slug":"ansys-hfss-and-circuit-reflectarry-co-simulation-workflow","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-hfss-and-circuit-reflectarry-co-simulation-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys HFSS and Circuit &#8211; Reflectarry Co-Simulation Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any insight on doing co-simulation between Ansys HFSS and Ansys Circuit when using plane wave excitations in HFSS. I&#8217;m trying to co-simulate the performance of a single reflectarray element, particularly the generation of IMD products due to the phase-control element (a varactor diode in this case). I have watched the Ansys material on co-simulation between HFSS and Circuit for performing impedance matching. The main portion of the co-simulation in that case involves Pushing Excitations from Ansys Circuit into HFSS to update the calculated fields based on the improved impedance match.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, I&#8217;ve yet to find any resources on providing an excitation in Ansys Circuit based on the calculated fields in HFSS. What I would like to do is, calculate the voltage across a lumped port and push that value into Ansys Circuit as an excitation to calculate the circuit&#8217;s response.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My current approach is to manually calculate the port&#8217;s voltage in HFSS using the Fields Calculator and input that value into a Circuit Microwave Port element. I believe this process can be automated using scripting, but I wanted to post here to see if there was a more direct way to do this.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-408225","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27793"],"_bbp_topic_id":["408225"],"_bbp_subscription":["335803","469978"],"_bbp_author_ip":["152.14.55.81"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["408894"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["408894"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-02-08 03:43:12"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["335803","469978"],"_btv_view_count":["464"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"8f3989de841f5aedb5787a0c4891d96ffd7338cf"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/408225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/408225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}