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Why does a circuit element cause a harmonic piezoelectric analysis to give bad results? If the resistor element is removed, the results are as expected.

Tagged: 11, low-frequency, Mechanical APDL (f. ANSYS), Multiphysics and EMAG (APDL), structural-mechanics
    • April 5, 2023 at 2:31 pm
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      Certain circuit elements can produce ill-conditioning, and the presence of any circuit element in ANSYS 11.0 activated a solver setting that may be inappropriate for your model. Solver improvements in ANSYS 12.0 have corrected the problem you are seeing for all circuit elements.

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