scholarly journals Comparison of Multi-Physical Coupling Analysis of a Balanced Armature Receiver between the Lumped Parameter Method and the Finite Element/Boundary Element Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Wu Jiang ◽  
Dan-Ping Xu ◽  
Zhi-Xiong Jiang ◽  
Jun-Hyung Kim ◽  
Sang-Moon Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Material Property ◽  
Parameter Method ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Lumped Parameter ◽  
Lumped Parameter Method ◽  
Element Boundary ◽  
Element Method

The balanced armature receiver (BAR) is a product based on multiphysics that enables coupling between the electromagnetic, mechanical, and acoustic domains. The three domains were modeled using the lumped parameter method (LPM) that takes advantage of an equivalent circuit. In addition, the combined finite element method (FEM) and boundary element method (BEM) was also applied to analyze the BAR. Both simulation results were verified against experimental results. The proposed LPM can predict the sound pressure level (SPL) by making use of the BAR parts dimension and material property. In addition, the previous analysis method, FEM/BEM, took 36 h, while the proposed LPM takes 1 h. So the proposed LPM can be used to check the BAR parts’ dimension and material property influence on the SPL and develop the BAR product efficiently.

scholarly journals A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanyi Tian ◽  
Lingyun Yao ◽  
Li Li
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Boundary Element Method ◽  
Frequency Response ◽  
Boundary Element ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Frequency Response Analysis ◽  
Acoustic Problem ◽  
Element Boundary ◽  
Element Method

Abstract Nowadays, the finite element method (FEM) - boundary element method (BEM) is used to predict the performance of structural-acoustic problem, i.e. the frequency response analysis, modal analysis. The accuracy of conventional FEM/BEM for structural-acoustic problems strongly depends on the size of the mesh, element quality, etc. As element size gets greater and distortion gets severer, the deviation of high frequency problem is also clear. In order to improve the accuracy of structural-acoustic problem, a smoothed finite-element/boundary-element coupling procedure (SFEM/BEM) is extended to analyze the structural-acoustic problem consisting of a shell structure interacting with the cavity in this paper, in which the SFEM and boundary element method (BEM) models are used to simulate the structure and the fluid, respectively. The governing equations of the structural-acoustic problems are established by coupling the SFEM for the structure and the BEM for the fluid. The solutions of SFEM are often found to be much more accurate than those of the FEM model. Based on its attractive features, it was decided in the present work to extend SFEM further for use in structural-acoustic analysis by coupling it with BEM, the present SFEM/BEM is implemented to predict the vehicle structure-acoustic frequency response analysis, and two numerical experiments results show that the present method can provide more accurate results compared with the standard FEM/BEM using the same mesh. It indicates that the present SFEM/BEM can be widely applied to solving many engineering noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) problems with more accurate solutions.

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