HFSS15: Optimizing A Waveguide Tee Junction

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This Getting Started guide is written for Optimetrics beginners as well as experienced users who are using Optimetrics for the first time. You must have completed Getting Started with HFSS: A Waveguide T-Junction before you begin this guide.

You will use Ansoft’s Optimetrics software to find an optimal position for the septum. Prior to performing the optimization, you will set up and solve a parametric analysis.

By following the steps in this guide, you will learn how to perform the following tasks in HFSS using Optimetrics:

• Create a basic parametric setup.

• Solve a parametric analysis.

• Create a 2D x-y plot of S-parameter results.

• Create a 2D x-y plot of power distribution results.

• Create a geometry animation.

• Specify a variable to be optimized.

• Create an optimization setup, which includes defining a cost function and setting the range of variable values for an optimization.

• Solve an optimization analysis.

• During an optimization analysis, view a plot of cost values versus solved iterations.

• Run an HFSS simulation using the optimal variable value.

• Update an existing field overlay plot with new results.