The below MATLAB 2013b script generates an animation of the time-harmonic electric field in a parallel-plate waveguide. The fields are excited by a line current, which is also in the presence of a perfectly conducting wire in order to reflect the fields to realize unidirectional wave propagation. We are about to submit it to IEEE Magazine, including the analytical derivations, exactly to address these types of questions and to supply the academic community with more illustrative examples.
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f = 1e9; % Frequency
Omega = 2*pi*f; % Radial frequency
k = Omega/3e8 - 1j*1e-20; % Wavenumber in free space Im(k)=0^-
Lambda = 2*pi/real(k); % Wavelength in the medium
a = 0.54*Lambda; % Parallel-plate separation distance
You can find some example as online applets at http://www.tet.ovgu.de/Forschung/Tools+.html. The examples are described in German, but some online translator should be helpful.