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Hi

normally "lambda" is defined by COMSOL when you do an eigvenvalue or eigenfrequency solveing, except if you have redefined it yourself, in which case there might be a variable naming conflict

I believe the bandgp example appears again in 4.1

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Good luck
Ivar

Dear Ivar,

Many thanks for your rapid reply!!
I agree that lambda itself is an unknown and should be determined in eigenvalue or eigenfrequency solvers. However, when I run the example, comsol immediately tells me the failure of lambda evaluation. I think there might be some problems there, because I just simply open it and run without revising anything.

Can you tell me how should i do regarding this example model or kindly check if there is any problem in this model?

I also install 4.0a and 4.1, but i did not obtain a similar example model in these two versions. Do you have any updated one?

I very appreciate your help!!!!!!!!


Best,

Xing

Hi

no I have nothing more than the latest patch for 4.1 from the Comsol site, I know they are working hard to update and verify all models and that with the major v4 changes in the soft they need still some months to get all models back ;)

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Good luck
Ivar

Dear Ivar,

I very appreciate your reply, especially your response regarding the examples in the new versions!!

But, can you provide me more advise for the error code:

Error: 6170
Failed to evaluate variable.
- Variable: lambda
- Global scope
Failed to evaluate expression.
- Expression: imag(lambda)
Failed to evaluate expression.
- Expression: -imag(lambda)/(2*pi)

It seems that comsol encounters some problem with evaluating lambda. How can I do to fix this problem??

Thank you!!

Best,

Xing

The model works perfectly fine, just that you need to follow it through the complete sequence mentioned in tutorial.

It won't work, however, if you just open it from model library and click compute button. The reason being that it needs initial field distribution and frequency value out of eigen frequency analysis to proceed with parametric solver. Once the result of parametric solver is computed, initial values of eigen frequency analysis are no longer available. Hence you get that error message.

Hope this helps.

Dear All,

Thank you very much for all of your help!!

I eventually figure it out!! Shakeeb is right, once you obtained the results, you cannot run it. So, in the example model, we cannot execute directly, since the results have been there. But, if you click "Re-do," everything goes well!!

Thank you!!

Best,

Xing

Hello guys,

I want to calculate the photonic bandgap of 1D or 2D PhC. Does anyone has any model or example for this kind of problem?

I really do appreciate your help.

Thank you in advance.