This video is taken from the FDTD Learning Track on Ansys Innovation Courses.
Transcript
Analysis groups allow you to perform post-processing of monitor data to define custom results.
For example here's an analysis group which contains a box of monitors.
After the simulation has run, the analysis group script collects the transmission through
each of the monitors that make up the sides of the box and sums the transmission to give
the net power flowing into or out of the box as a custom result.
Analysis groups can contain structures, sources, and monitors, and they are also capable of
setting up the properties of these objects using a setup script.
The analysis script is used to collect the results from monitors contained inside the
group and calculate new results.
One example of an analysis group is the Model group which is located at the top of the Objects
Tree and contains all objects in the simulation.
You can add a new empty analysis group from the "Groups" button in the main toolbar.
When you edit an analysis group, under the "Setup" tab, in the "Variables" tab you can
define custom properties that can then be used in the setup script which is under the
"Script" tab.
The setup script can be used to add or remove objects in the group, and set up the properties
of the objects contained inside the group.
Under the "Analysis" tab, in the "Variables" tab, you can add input variables that can
be used by the analysis script, and you can also add the names of results that will be
calculated by the analysis script that will be returned after the analysis script has
been run.
Under the "Script" tab, the analysis script can be used to collect monitor data from any
monitors in the analysis group, and the user-defined results can then be calculated.
The group can either be a construction group meaning that the objects inside the group
are deleted and set up again from scratch each time the setup script is run, or if the construction
group option is unchecked, the script will only modify the properties of existing objects
inside the group and won't add or delete the objects.
Groups can only modify or access data from child objects contained inside the group and
can't affect objects or get data from objects that are outside the group in either parent or sibling
objects.
Groups can also be nested.
Results from the analysis group can be visualized and used the same way as monitor results,
and analysis group variables can be used in parameter sweeps.
Container groups and structure groups are also available.
Container groups do not have the capability to set up properties of any objects or collect
monitor results for analysis.
Structure groups are used to set properties of structures, but they cannot contain monitors
or sources or collect any results.
The Object Library contains structure and analysis groups that are already set up and
available to insert directly into your simulation.
In the following unit, we'll look at how to use these analysis groups from the Object Library.