RelBiPermittivity¶
Type: | 2-Tensor, or section |
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Range: | [v_1, …, v_9] |
Default: | -/- |
Appearance: | optional |
This parameter specifies the relative magnetic permittivity (the coupling between the electric displacement field and the magnetic field ) as follows:
Warning
Usually the relative magnetic permittivity is defined relative to the background permittivity and permeability. We do not follow this convention as it is not clear how this convention is applied for general an-isotropic tensors and .
For general bi-anisotropic materials the material constitutive relations read as
Typically the tensors and are not independent from each other. To preserve reciprocity of Maxwell’s equation it is required that
For a bi-anisotropic material without damping additional to the Ohmic losses we have
Isotropic materials are typically classified by the reciprocity parameter and the chirality parameter ,
This material definition introduces no additional losses and is reciprocal for .