Simple materials like Aluminium, steel, air etc. the software asks me to input the above details? What could be the problem as some videos show that for built in materials you need not enter any data?
There is no need to define elasticity matrix, if you are using built-in materials in Comsol. But you should enter the value of relative permittivity even for most built-in materials. Please bear in mind that this value for most of metal is equal to 1. So it is only required that you enter for permittiviy in chosen material. Good luck!
There is no need to define elasticity matrix, if you are using built-in materials in Comsol. But you should enter the value of relative permittivity even for most built-in materials. Please bear in mind that this value for most of metal is equal to 1. So it is only required that you enter for permittiviy in chosen material. Good luck!
Dear Rajagopalan, I had myself this problem when trying to simulate with COMSOL some electromagnetism problems involving iron-oxide magnetic nanoparticles on an aluminum alloy 2024 substrate.
I can provide you with the values of relative permittivity that I used for the Al alloy 2024 substrate (the values for other alloys or pure Al should not be far from these):
a) 1.44 from this reference (N. M. Ibrahim and I. H. a. Fattah, “Narrow-beam aluminum-mirrored fiber optical-taps with controllable tapped power,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 221–225, Jun. 1996. DOI: 10.1109/2944.577366); and
b) 8.00 from this reference (H. Kanayama, D. Tagami, K. Imoto, and S. Sugimoto, “Finite element computation of magnetic field problems with the displacement current,” J. Comput. Appl. Math., vol. 159, no. 1, pp. 77–84, Oct. 2003. DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(03)00560-0)