GE - End Geometry Input

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GE - End Geometry Input

Purpose:To terminate reading of geometry data cards and reset geometry data if a ground plane is used.
Card:

    Field	Parameter	Last column in each field
    ----	----		-------------------------
    GA			2
    I1 	gpflag		5
    blank			10
    blank			20
    blank			30
    blank			40
    blank			50
    blank			60
    blank			70
    blank			80

Parameters
Integers
  gpflag - Geometry ground plain flag.
    0 - no ground plane is present.
    1 - Indicates a ground plane is present. Structure symmetry is modified as required, and the current expansion is modified so that the currents an segments touching the ground (x, Y plane) are interpolated to their images below the ground (charge at base is zero)
    -1 - indicates a ground is present. Structure symmetry is modified as required. Current expansion, however, is not modified, Thus, currents on segments touching the ground will go to zero at the ground.
  Decimal Numbers
    The decimal number fields are not used.

Notes:

- The basic function of the GE card is to terminate reading of geometry data cards. In doing this, it causes the program to search through the segment data that have been generated by the preceding cards to determine which wires are connected for current expansion.
- At the time that the GE card is read, the structure dimensions must be in units of meters.
- A positive or negative value of I1 does not cause a ground to be included in the calculation. It only modifies the geometry data as required when a ground is present. The ground parameters must be specified on a program control card following the geometry cards.
- When I1 is nonzero, no segment my extend below the ground plane (X,Y plane) or lie in this plane. Segments my end on the ground plane, however.
- If the height of a horizontal wire is less than 10-3 times the segment length, I1 equal to 1 will connect the end of every segment in the wire to ground. I1 should be -1 to avoid this disaster.
- As an example of how the symmetry of a structure is effected by the presence of ground plane (X,Y plane), consider a structure generated with cylindrical symmetry about the > axis. The presence of a ground does not effect the cylindrical symmetry. If however this same structure is rotated off the vertical, the cylindrical symmetry is lost in the presence of the ground. As a second example, consider a dipole parallel to Z axis which was generated with symmetry about its feed. The presence of a ground plane destroys this symmetry. The program modifies structure symmetries as follows when I1 is nonzero If the structure was rotated about the X or Y axis by the GM card, all symmetry is lost (i.e., the no-symmetry condition is set). If the structure was not rotated about the X or Y axis, only symmetry about a plane parallel to the X, Y plane is lost. Translation or a structure does not affect symmetries.

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