BlochVector

Type:

Vector<complex>

Range:

[v_1, …, v_3]

Default:

[0.0, 0.0, 0.0]

Appearance:

simple

Sets Bloch-vector as needed to specify the Bloch-periodicity for periodic geometries. For the discussion of periodic boundary conditions see here in the section Electromagnetics.

For two-dimensional -invariant problems the third component has the meaning of a wavenumber as detailed here in the parent section.

For cylindrically symmetric problems the third component is the angular, integer wavenumber , for details see here.