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® Infinite Elements SOLVED WITH COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS 3.5a © COPYRIGHT 2008. All right reserved. No part of this documentation may be photocopied or reproduced in any form without prior written consent from COMSOL AB. COMSOL, COMSOL Multiphysics, COMSOL Reac- tion Engineering Lab, and FEMLAB are registered trademarks of COMSOL AB. Other product or brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Infinite Elements Many environments that are modeled with finite elements are unbounded or open, meaning that the electromagnetic fields extend toward infinity. The easiest approach to modeling an unbounded domain is to extend the simulation domain “far enough” that the influence of the terminating boundary conditions at the far end becomes negligible. This approach can create unnecessary mesh elements and make the geometry difficult to mesh due to large differences between the largest and smallest object. Another approach is to use infinite elements. There are many implementations of infinite elements available, and the elements used in the AC/DC Module are often referred to as mapped infinite elements (see Ref. 1). This implementation maps the model coordinates from the local, finite-sized domain to a stretched domain. The inner boundary of this stretched domain coincides with the local domain, but at the exterior boundary the coordinates are scaled toward infinity: t t = t