Applications
CST offers products suitable for a wide range of electromagnetic design tasks, capable of simulating numerous components and systems.
Together, the products in the CST STUDIO SUITE® family can carry out electro- and magnetostatic, stationary, low-frequency and high-frequency simulations, as well as being able to calculate the effects of EM fields on substances as diverse as magnetic materials, biological tissues and charged particles. Tight integration with third party tools extends the application range even further.
The applications of CST software are almost limitless; among the devices that CST products have been used to simulate are couplers, filters, connectors, antennas, inductors, capacitors, PCBs, waveguides, travelling wave tubes, optical devices, sensors, actuators, electrical machines, SAR, MRI coils and cable harnesses, to name but a few.
Worked examples of applications of CST software are being added all the time. These can be found sorted by application area in the menu on the left, or through the site search at the top of each page.
Latest Articles
This article is concerned with the modeling of an electromechanical component using an equivalent circuit generated from magnetostatic simulations in CST EM STUDIO®. CST DESIGN STUDIO™ is then used to simulate the coupled electric circuit and mechanical dynamics.
A simple Look-Up Table (LUT) approach has been applied for this purpose.
The method has been applied to the simulation of a solenoid system.
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This whitepaper gives a general overview on different concepts of photonic crystal cavities. Important figures such as the transmission, the mode volume and the quality factor are discussed. The presented information will help the reader to decide which type of photonic crystal cavities will be most suited for the application in view. A design example for a WDM channel filter is given in order to illustrate the design process for a photonic crystal cavity. Furthermore two experimental examples from recent research are shown to demonstrate the wide range of applications in which photonic crystal cavities could be used.
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The magnetrons used in microwave ovens operate on the same frequency band as Wi-Fi equipment, and the radiation they release can interfere with the operation of wireless networks. This paper presents a multiphysics simulation of a magnetron using CST STUDIO SUITE®, with the aim of testing the electrical, magnetic, thermal and mechanical characteristics of a low-interference magnetron design. The simulation results are then compared to measurements made experimentally, and the two sets of results are shown to be in good agreement.
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In this video powerful new workflows for reliably predicting radiated emissions from electronics systems will be discussed. We start by importing a complex PCB model into CST PCB STUDIO and applying new EMC rules checking algorithms to rapidly identify potential weaknesses in the design. Critical nets, planes and vias are then analyzed to determine the differential mode (DM) to common mode (CM) conversion caused by driver skew and line imbalance. Finally, the resulting transient noise waveforms are injected into a 3D model of the connector/cable assembly and radiated emissions predicted. Important features of a typical anechoic chamber test are represented in the model using external ground plane reflections and cylindrical scanning to detect the peak emissions.
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In a particle accelerator thermal considerations are often of great importance. Therefore in this article the combination of a wake field analysis to figure out the deposited losses and a subsequent thermal simulation are shown using the toroid of DESY PETRA III ring as example.
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Cables not only transfer the power needed to run electrical equipment,
but also the data signals needed to operate them. To prevent errors and device failures, the same attention must be paid to the choice and installation of the cabling as is paid to the rest of the system.
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