Hybrid finite element methods for the von Karman equations

CALCOLO ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Quarteroni
Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 714
Author(s):  
Jiujiang Wang ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Yuanyu Yu ◽  
Yao Li ◽  
Ching-Hsiang Cheng ◽  
...  

Analytical modeling of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) is one of the commonly used modeling methods and has the advantages of intuitive understanding of the physics of CMUTs and convergent when modeling of collapse mode CMUT. This review article summarizes analytical modeling of the collapse voltage and shows that the collapse voltage of a CMUT correlates with the effective gap height and the electrode area. There are analytical expressions for the collapse voltage. Modeling of the membrane deflections are characterized by governing equations from Timoshenko, von Kármán equations and the 2D plate equation, and solved by various methods such as Galerkin’s method and perturbation method. Analytical expressions from Timoshenko’s equation can be used for small deflections, while analytical expression from von Kármán equations can be used for both small and large deflections.


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