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Hertzon v0.2.2
Changed
- AURA refinement keeps curved surfaces exact (hzAURA): EMerge
55ebd4d. Where a new node on a curved
face or edge cannot be moved onto the CAD geometry by bisection, it is put there anyway and the elements
around it are re-meshed as a constrained Delaunay cavity, instead of leaving the node closer to the chord
(a dent). Faces that are neither spheres, cylinders nor planes are followed by a bicubic interpolation of
their CAD parametrisation: on a lofted free-form body new surface nodes stay within 0.14 mm of the face
(was 1.4 mm). AURA's refinement time is unchanged. The setting is now called hzAURA (EMerge); projects
and scripts with "AURA (EMerge)" keep working and keep their solutions. - More accurate RCS of scattering problems: with an incident plane wave, Auto Open now leaves one
wavelength of air around the objects (was half a wavelength), and the far field is integrated with Gauss
points over a box λ/8 around the scatterers instead of over mesh faces halfway to the boundary. For the
250 mm PEC sphere at 1 GHz the error of the bistatic RCS against the exact solution drops from 0.6 dB to
about 0.4 dB (monostatic from +1.4 dB to +0.2 dB), with fewer tetrahedra (26k instead of 38k). A padding
set in the design is used as before.
Windows installer (Hertzon-Setup-*.exe) and Linux package (Hertzon-*-linux.tar.gz).
Hertzon is built on EMerge, the open-source FEM solver by
Robert Fennis, which provides the finite-element core.