How Can I Define the Simulation Grid?

Date	Category
2025-06-30 21:10:35	Charge

There are two classes available for defining the grid specification:

• UniformUnstructuredGrid:

  • This class implements a simple uniform unstructured grid, with the grid size defined by the dl argument. For an application example, see this example.

heat_grid = UniformUnstructuredGrid(dl=0.1)```



- [DistanceUnstructuredGrid](https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/api/_autosummary/tidy3d.DistanceUnstructuredGrid.html):

    - This class specifies the mesh size based on the distance from material interfaces. The finer grid near interfaces is defined by the `dl_interface` argument, while the coarser bulk grid size is set using `dl_bulk`. The distances over which `dl_interface` and `dl_bulk` are enforced can be controlled with the `distance_interface` and `distance_bulk` arguments, respectively. For an application example, see [this](https://www.flexcompute.com/tidy3d/examples/notebooks/ThermallyTunedRingResonator/) example notebook.

 

```python
heat_grid = DistanceUnstructuredGrid(
dl_interface=0.1,
dl_bulk=1,
distance_interface=0.3,
distance_bulk=2,
)```



The user can also add refinement regions to enforce a minimum grid size in a given region using the [GridRefinementRegion](https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/api/_autosummary/tidy3d.GridRefinementRegion.html) object, or along a line using the [GridRefinementLine](https://docs.flexcompute.com/projects/tidy3d/en/latest/api/_autosummary/tidy3d.GridRefinementLine.html) object. An example of this can be found in our [charge solver example](https://www.flexcompute.com/tidy3d/examples/notebooks/ChargeSolver).