{"id":436841,"date":"2025-07-15T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/nested-sweeps-take-very-long-time-to-simulate-rcwa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:57:30","slug":"nested-sweeps-take-very-long-time-to-simulate-rcwa","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/nested-sweeps-take-very-long-time-to-simulate-rcwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nested sweeps take very long time to simulate RCWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hello Ansys Comunity,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have question regarding very long time rcwa simulation.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m doing nested sweep of parameters:&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;for period_x (36 number of points)&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for groove_depth (36 number of points)&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for duty_cycle (36 number of points)&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think that the problem arised from the saving HUGE fsp files that saved in same folder.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How to resolve it ?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a solution not to save the files and to do the analysis in some different method?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/15-07-2025-1752568773-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-436841","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-output-files-and-saving","topic-tag-parametersweep-1","topic-tag-parametric-sweep","topic-tag-RCWA-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_topic_id":["436841"],"_bbp_subscription":["338116","473055","4274"],"_bbp_author_ip":["132.64.86.18"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["441097"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["441097"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-09-09 18:38:35"],"_bbp_reply_count":["12"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_engagement":["338116","473055","4274"],"_btv_view_count":["496"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_lock":["1752593277:473055"],"_bbp_notification_enabled":["473055"]},"test":"hammam-albustamimail-huji-ac-il"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/436841","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\/436841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}