POLARIS

POLARIS is high-performance simulation software for the dielectric design and analysis of high-voltage devices. It uses the Boundary Element Method (BEM) to model electrostatic problems with electrodes, dielectric media, and floating or initially unknown potentials.

POLARIS is built to scale. With MPI parallelization it runs efficiently on laptops, engineering workstations and large HPC clusters. A Fast Multipole Method (FMM) compresses the boundary element operator, so dense BEM matrices are never stored and large models stay tractable.

POLARIS reads several surface mesh formats and supports flat and curved triangular and quadrilateral elements. Higher-order discretizations based on L² and H¹ᐟ² finite element spaces let you match the accuracy of the model to the application.

Besides surface quantities, POLARIS evaluates the electric field anywhere in the exterior domain, so you can analyze field distributions and find critical regions in your design. Results are written as VTKHDF and open directly in ParaView.

The browser-based POLARIS preprocessor provides a graphical interface for creating and configuring simulation models, so you don't have to write input files by hand.