HFSS Wave Port Sizing
I have same question about the port sizing. However, I guess the size is not necessary for 1.5 times but must be great than the sides of the antenna.
What do you think guys?
Have the waveports cover all relevant conductors, then excite the proper number of modes.
If the ports are close enough that they are coupled anyways, you'd want to model this coupling.
Thanks for the responses. Is there some general rule of thumb for determining how large the waveport needs to be when doing this? Right now I am just visually inspecting the Port Field Display and just sizing the wave port larger than the ends of the field display.
It depends on the mode. For a microstrip mode, a good rule of thumb is you want the waveport to cover four times the microstrip width and three times the dielectric height. In general, I don't think there's much of an issue with erring on the side of a larger port, except for the possibility of exciting the wrong mode.