Neat little interactive tool that visually demonstrates the point. This one is for sound and strings but the same superposition principle applies. Just make the amplitudes unequal.
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Waves-and-Sound/Standing-Wave-Patterns/Standing-Wave-Patterns-Interactive
Another visual:
http://www.mysearch.org.uk/website3/html/3%20Plane%20Standing%20Waves.htm
I don't have any reason to suspect this isn't happening in the cavity. Are the guys running computer simulations able to capture it?
Here is a set of near and far fields viewed from the x side. It looks a little suspicious to me, but what do I know?
Here is a set of near and far fields viewed from the x side. It looks a little suspicious to me, but what do I know?
Maybe one of the 3 dipoles is 180o out of phase?
Thanks. I'll look into that possibility tomorrow.
Steve
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How do you exactly envision such energy flow can transfer momentum whereas it stays contained inside a closed cavity? Aren't we in the same situation as the driver sat in his car at rest, pushing on the steering wheel to make it move?
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Or do you think like WarpTech there is sort of a continuous shifting of the center of mass of the EM wave backwards, its energy being then dispersed through the metal and finally to the outside, making the EmDrive an open system?
Here is a set of near and far fields viewed from the x side. It looks a little suspicious to me, but what do I know?
It looks like the field is being radiated into the cavity until the amplitude of the energy, and its phase shifts so it is being then reflected back. Energy sloshing around between modes? That's the problem with such a high-Q cavity, it takes too long to stabilize or even observe the process. Perhaps drastically reduce the Q?
A small loop, as an H-mode transducer/feed/probe should only be creating a magnetic field. Ideal the current would be uniform through. It's not like a loop antenna.
These graphics only show the fields, there isn't any cavity in the lattice, just vacuum and a one wavelength pml around the edges to absorb the field energy and suppress/eliminate reflections from the lattice walls.
But by only magnetic, are you saying that only hz should be used to excite the dipoles? That is, I should remove the ex and ey excitations?
And I've concluded that meep for one, will never be able to propagate more than a few microseconds per day. I'm running the fastest consumer grade processor currently available (4.7 GHz clock) with physical 8 cores but the overhead required to share a meep job between cores becomes greater than the run time saved when more than 4 cores are interfaces. Maybe the latest Intel I7 processors with 24 MHz cache would run the job but the clock is slower on that processor and since run time is directly related to clock rate I don't know that even running the whole job in cache would make up for the slower clock rate of the Intel processors. So to get speed, a coarse lattice is required, but working in the near field as we are, and desiring some level of precision, limits how coarse the lattice can be.
That leaves it up to the theoreticians to see any details, and experimentalists to lead the way.
And I've concluded that meep for one, will never be able to propagate more than a few microseconds per day. I'm running the fastest consumer grade processor currently available (4.7 GHz clock) with physical 8 cores but the overhead required to share a meep job between cores becomes greater than the run time saved when more than 4 cores are interfaces. Maybe the latest Intel I7 processors with 24 MHz cache would run the job but the clock is slower on that processor and since run time is directly related to clock rate I don't know that even running the whole job in cache would make up for the slower clock rate of the Intel processors. So to get speed, a coarse lattice is required, but working in the near field as we are, and desiring some level of precision, limits how coarse the lattice can be.
That leaves it up to the theoreticians to see any details, and experimentalists to lead the way.
Hey man, why don't you try to get an account on Amazon Web Services or some other Cloud platform, and the rest of us can chip in to give you a few bucks to run it on there, so that you'll have as many processors as you like.
Who maintains this Wiki, btw?
http://emdrive.wiki/MEEP#Cloud_computing:_Amazon_EC2_AMI
Maybe give that guy @dumbo a tweet to get his help.
I have ran meep on a server, the speed does not depend on number of processors, the time to complete a meep job increases with number of processors interfaced beyond 3 or 4 processors. The run time by number of processors is an upward opening parabola, the minimum run time depends only on the processor clock rate. A more efficiently or custom interface code, customized to meep might increase the number of processors that could be effectively be brought to bear, but that is a job of work to do so. And I expect that most if not all numeric models face a similar limitation at whatever level of computational lattice they operate.
Of course a server does have the advantage of a batch job so one could walk away and let it run for a few weeks...But then one needs to define a job where the long, long run time would actually provide needed information.
According to the researchers, they "believe that Amazon’s HPC (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/) cloud is well prepared for moderately sized parallel CFD problems on up to 64 CPU cores or 8 GPUs.”
NASA's JPL is one of the featured customers of Amazon’s HPC (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/)
I have ran meep on a server, the speed does not depend on number of processors, the time to complete a meep job increases with number of processors interfaced beyond 3 or 4 processors. The run time by number of processors is an upward opening parabola, the minimum run time depends only on the processor clock rate. A more efficiently or custom interface code, customized to meep might increase the number of processors that could be effectively be brought to bear, but that is a job of work to do so. And I expect that most if not all numeric models face a similar limitation at whatever level of computational lattice they operate.
Of course a server does have the advantage of a batch job so one could walk away and let it run for a few weeks...But then one needs to define a job where the long, long run time would actually provide needed information.
In a previous post Rodal mentions:QuoteAccording to the researchers, they "believe that Amazon’s HPC (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/) cloud is well prepared for moderately sized parallel CFD problems on up to 64 CPU cores or 8 GPUs.”
NASA's JPL is one of the featured customers of Amazon’s HPC (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/)
Here is a set of near and far fields viewed from the x side. It looks a little suspicious to me, but what do I know?
Maybe one of the 3 dipoles is 180o out of phase?
Thanks. I'll look into that possibility tomorrow.
Steve
I'm Sorry, but I mislead you regarding the x-view of the fields. The x view you were looking at wasn't time slices, rather they were spacial slices of a static field at the end of the run, stepping across the computational lattice in the x direction. The other gifs were time slices, but I didn't see anything in any of the time slice side views. so I made a spacial slice side view. I've attached the time slice gifs x-view of the central axis here. But as was remarked, there is very little field energy on the central axis. Maybe that apparent energy "lump" at the center of that static field is just the direction of dipole radiation. It was taken at the end of the run which was 64 cycles. I blithely assumed it would be at the end of the 64-th cycle and the same as the start of the 65-th cycle which never started, but I don't know exactly how meep does it as it propagates in integer time steps that are 2/resolution (2/240 and 2/50 near and far views) with meep time being (1/c) in these cases. Inverse speed of light.
Anyway, regarding the sign on the dipole radiation, unless meep does it wrong internally or unless physics requires that I add a phase angle to one or the other ex, ey when used together, the dipole phases are right. That is, they all start at time 0 with zero phase with ex radiating in the x direction and ey radiating in the y direction.
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And I've concluded that meep for one, will never be able to propagate more than a few microseconds per day. I'm running the fastest consumer grade processor currently available (4.7 GHz clock) with physical 8 cores but the overhead required to share a meep job between cores becomes greater than the run time saved when more than 4 cores are interfaces. Maybe the latest Intel I7 processors with 24 MHz cache would run the job but the clock is slower on that processor and since run time is directly related to clock rate I don't know that even running the whole job in cache would make up for the slower clock rate of the Intel processors. So to get speed, a coarse lattice is required, but working in the near field as we are, and desiring some level of precision, limits how coarse the lattice can be.
That leaves it up to the theoreticians to see any details, and experimentalists to lead the way.
I have ran meep on a server, the speed does not depend on number of processors, the time to complete a meep job increases with number of processors interfaced beyond 3 or 4 processors. The run time by number of processors is an upward opening parabola, the minimum run time depends only on the processor clock rate. A more efficiently or custom interface code, customized to meep might increase the number of processors that could be effectively be brought to bear, but that is a job of work to do so. And I expect that most if not all numeric models face a similar limitation at whatever level of computational lattice they operate.
Of course a server does have the advantage of a batch job so one could walk away and let it run for a few weeks...But then one needs to define a job where the long, long run time would actually provide needed information.
In a previous post Rodal mentions:QuoteAccording to the researchers, they "believe that Amazon’s HPC (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/) cloud is well prepared for moderately sized parallel CFD problems on up to 64 CPU cores or 8 GPUs.”
NASA's JPL is one of the featured customers of Amazon’s HPC (https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/)
Here is a set of near and far fields viewed from the x side. It looks a little suspicious to me, but what do I know?
Maybe one of the 3 dipoles is 180o out of phase?
Thanks. I'll look into that possibility tomorrow.
Steve
I'm Sorry, but I mislead you regarding the x-view of the fields. The x view you were looking at wasn't time slices, rather they were spacial slices of a static field at the end of the run, stepping across the computational lattice in the x direction. The other gifs were time slices, but I didn't see anything in any of the time slice side views. so I made a spacial slice side view. I've attached the time slice gifs x-view of the central axis here. But as was remarked, there is very little field energy on the central axis. Maybe that apparent energy "lump" at the center of that static field is just the direction of dipole radiation. It was taken at the end of the run which was 64 cycles. I blithely assumed it would be at the end of the 64-th cycle and the same as the start of the 65-th cycle which never started, but I don't know exactly how meep does it as it propagates in integer time steps that are 2/resolution (2/240 and 2/50 near and far views) with meep time being (1/c) in these cases. Inverse speed of light.
Anyway, regarding the sign on the dipole radiation, unless meep does it wrong internally or unless physics requires that I add a phase angle to one or the other ex, ey when used together, the dipole phases are right. That is, they all start at time 0 with zero phase with ex radiating in the x direction and ey radiating in the y direction.
Okay, but a loop should look like a "magnetic dipole" not an electric dipole. That's what appears to be wrong to me. It should oscillate red circle to blue circle, not both at the same time.
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How do you exactly envision such energy flow can transfer momentum whereas it stays contained inside a closed cavity? Aren't we in the same situation as the driver sat in his car at rest, pushing on the steering wheel to make it move?
No, in practice this is an open system, not a closed system. Shawyer doesn't discuss the role of dissipation, consequently critics use the closed-system strawman arguement. Power applied, and dissipation/heat makes the system open...
Or do you think like WarpTech there is sort of a continuous shifting of the center of mass of the EM wave backwards, its energy being then dispersed through the metal and finally to the outside, making the EmDrive an open system?
I believe there is a continuous shifting of the center of radiation pressure via a marching wave of momentum. I don't see the need like WarpTech to invoke gravity, as I understand gravity is the curvature of spacetime caused by mass, and mass being Energy. And since there is considerable megawatts of radiation pressure against the immense mass-energy of the frustrum, what I would call gravitational effects would be insignificantly infinitesimal. Unless there's new physics.
But we seem to be unable to consider the physics of a frustrum for over a few dozen microseconds, when many milliseconds are called for.
...But 100 micro-seconds might be enough for the cavity to reach steady state at somewhat low Q.
don't rule out new physics unless old physics will entirely do. Granted -old physics generally wins out but it does not have to be that way every time.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160108083918.htm?trendmd-shared=0
https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00333
scientists suggest/consider new physics too often for it to be an illegitimate mode of inquiry. Furthermore if there is smoke there could be fire. In the realms of physics, astronomy and cosmology there is a lot of smoke lately.