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cadumt
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 Posted - Oct 22 2025 : 18:48:45
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Hi, Enrico.
I'm starting to study superconductors and don't know nuch about it but I was wondering how would FastHenry compare with other tools like HFSS (Ansys) to determine the inductance? I know that it doesn't do the full wave simulation as Ansys's but as an initial guess, would it be good?
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Enrico
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Posted - Oct 31 2025 : 12:33:23
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Hi Cadu,
FastHenry does not perform a full wave simulation, but in the version by S.Whiteley can consider superconductive materials using the two-fluid model. It would not be an initial guess: within the validity of the model, it is a correct numerical solution. You can refer to the following papers for further details:
Du, Z., Whiteley, S. R., & Van Duzer, T. Inductance calculation of 3D superconducting structures Applied superconductivity, 6(10-12), 519-523, 1999
Fourie, C. J., Wetzstein, O., Ortlepp, T., & Kunert, J. Three-dimensional multi-terminal superconductive integrated circuit inductance extraction Superconductor Science and Technology, 24(12), 125015. 2011
Also, we also supported the development of SuperVoxHenry, adding the capability to support superconductors in the same way done for FastHenry. You can find the relevant description here:
Wang, M., Qian, C., Di Lorenzo, E., Gomez, L. J., Okhmatovski, V., & Yucel, A. C SuperVoxHenry: Tucker-enhanced and FFT-accelerated inductance extraction for voxelized superconducting structures IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 31(7), 1-11 2021
Best,
Enrico
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cadumt
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Posted - Nov 04 2025 : 16:56:03
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Hi, Enrico.
Thanks very much for the reply and for the references. I'll check them out.
Best regards, |
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