Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide

The Item and Comp fields on PLTRAC allow you to see the variation of a specified item (such as velocity,
pressure, and temperature for a particle flow trace or electric potential for a charged particle trace). The
variation of the item is displayed along the path trajectory as a color-contoured ribbon.

Figure 7.9: A Sample Charge Particle Trace in Electric and/or Magnetic Fields

Tr acing a particle moving in a pure magnetic field might look like this:

The path of that particle moving through a pure electric field might look like this:

Plotting that same particle in the presence of both the electric and magnetic fields (with

E normal to B) would then look like this:

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