Re: Electric Field around a Capacitor
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- Subject: [mg12587] Re: [mg12555] Electric Field around a Capacitor
- From: "William S. Wong" <williamw@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 14:24:58 -0400
At 06:11 PM 5/23/98 -0400, you wrote: >Does anyone have a notebook which computes the Electrostatic field >around a parallel plate capacitor? I would like to get the fringing >field. Finite difference seems to be the only way I can figure it, >maybe someone else has been more clever. > Since you are solving the Poisson's equation in 2D with sources, maybe you should use the relaxation method in a 2D rectangular grid. The method is based on the fact that, away from a source, the value at one interior point is always the average of the values of its neighboring points. William Wong Massachusetts Insitute of Technology