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Simulation of Acoustic and Vibro-Acoustic Problems in LS-DYNA® using Boundary Element Method

Contributors: Yun Huang - Livermore Software Technology Corporation, Mhamed Souli - University of Lille, France

The present work concerns the new capability of LS-DYNA® in solving acoustic and vibro-acoustic problems. In vibro-acoustic problems, which are assumed to be weak acoustic-structure interactions, the transient structural response is computed first. By applying the FFT, it is transformed into a frequency response. The obtained result is taken as boundary condition for the acoustic part of the vibro-acoustic problem. Consequently, the radiated noise at any point into space can be calculated. The new developed LS-DYNA keyword is based on boundary element method (BEM) in which only the surface of the acoustic domain needs to be discretized. Besides BEM that solves the Helmholtz equation as a linear system, the new card allows, also, to use two other approximative Rayleigh and Kirchhoff methods. Both methods do not require a system of equations to be assembled and solved. Consequently, they are faster than BEM. Rayleigh method assumes that the radiating structure is a plane surface clamped into an infinite rigid plane. In Kirchhoff method, BEM is coupled to FEM used for acoustics in LS-DYNA by prescribing non reflecting boundary condition. In this case, at least one fluid layer needs to be merged to the vibrating structure. Keywords: Acoustic, Vibro-acoustic coupling, FFT, Boundary element method

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