Numerical Simulation of Acoustic Field for the Miniature Cylindrical Transducer with a Rectangular Hole

2011 ◽  
Vol 421 ◽  
pp. 739-742
Author(s):  
Li Li Yu ◽  
Jin Hua Zhao ◽  
Quan Zhou Zhao ◽  
Chun Hui

In this paper the characteristics of acoustic field for miniature cylindrical focused transducer with a hole was studied in order to instruct the optimization design of the transducer for both realizing visualization and improving the treatment effect. Then the acoustic field was simulated numerically with different parameters of hole. It is found that position of focus is almost unchanged but acoustic pressure amplitude declines. In addition the performance of transverse focusing for the focal plane and levels length of acoustic pressure are lowered. Moreover, if size of transducer and rigidity of material permit, the area and ratio of width to height for the hole should be reduced appropriately to improve the focusing properties. And it is deduced that area and ratio of width to height for the cylinder can be increased to achieve the same therapeutic effect with a fixed hole size.

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 4020
Author(s):  
Peng Sun ◽  
Yiping Lu ◽  
Jianfei Tong ◽  
Youlian Lu ◽  
Tianjiao Liang ◽  
...  

In order to provide a theoretical basis for the thermal design of the neutron production target, flow and heat transfer characteristics are studied by using numerical simulations and experiments. A rectangular mini-channel experimental model consistent with the geometric shape of the heat dissipation structure of neutron production target was established, in which the aspect ratio and gap thickness of the test channel were 53.8:1 and 1.3 mm, respectively. The experimental results indicate that the critical Re of the mini-channel is between 3500 and 4000, and when Re reaches 21,000, Nu can reach 160. The simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental data, and the numerical simulation method can be used for the variable structure optimization design of the target in the later stage. The relationship between the flow pressure drop of the target mini-channel and the aspect ratio and Re is obtained by numerical simulation. The maximum deviation between the correlation and the experimental value is 6%.


2013 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 518-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Li ◽  
Min You

Owing to the lack of a good theory method to obtain the accurate equivalent elastic constants of hexagon honeycomb sandwich structure’s core, the paper analyzed mechanics performance of honeycomb sandwich structure’s core and deduced equivalent elastic constants of hexagon honeycomb sandwich structure’s core considering the wall plate expansion deformation’s effect of hexagonal cell. And also a typical satellite sandwich structure was chose as an application to analyze. The commercial finite element program ANSYS was employed to evaluate the mechanics property of hexagon honeycomb core. Numerical simulation analysis and theoretical calculation results show the formulas of equivalent elastic constants is correct and also research results of the paper provide theory basis for satellite cellular sandwich structure optimization design.


Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Marc Röthlisberger ◽  
Marcel Schuck ◽  
Laurenz Kulmer ◽  
Johann W. Kolar

Acoustic levitation forces can be used to manipulate small objects and liquid without mechanical contact or contamination. To use acoustic levitation for contactless robotic grippers, automated insertion of objects into the acoustic pressure field is necessary. This work presents analytical models based on which concepts for the controlled insertion of objects are developed. Two prototypes of acoustic grippers are implemented and used to experimentally verify the lifting of objects into the acoustic field. Using standing acoustic waves and by dynamically adjusting the acoustic power, the lifting of high-density objects (>7 g/cm3) from acoustically transparent surfaces is demonstrated. Moreover, a combination of different acoustic traps is used to lift lower-density objects from acoustically reflective surfaces. The provided results open up new possibilities for the implementation of acoustic levitation in robotic grippers, which have the potential to be used in a variety of industrial applications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2097 (1) ◽  
pp. 012028
Author(s):  
Mingming Liu ◽  
Haifei Zhuang ◽  
Lei Cao

Abstract In order to reveal the dredge pump flow instability characteristics, the cavitation and pressure fluctuation in experimental study are carried out, the pressure fluctuation frequency domain and time domain characteristics of three different position inside the volute are analyzed. The results showed that, before cavitation, the main frequency at different positions at different flow rates is 1 times the main frequency of the blade. The fluctuation amplitude near the volute tongue and diffusion section is slightly larger than that at other positions. Before cavitation, the fluctuation amplitude at the same position off design flow is slightly higher than that near the design flow. Cavitation has little influence on the main frequency of the pressure fluctuation. After cavitation, the pressure fluctuation amplitude in the low flow point and the position of the volute tongue under each condition has little change, but cavitation aggravates the pressure fluctuation in the other conditions. Besides, the comparison between simulation and experiment results shows the dredge pump performance curve is in good agreement with the simulation curve, and the simulation results of pressure amplitude at different positions are basically consistent with the experiment results, which verifies the reliability of the numerical simulation method.


2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 405002
Author(s):  
李晓莹 LI Xiao-ying ◽  
吴焱 WU Yan ◽  
虞益挺 YU Yi-ting ◽  
刁金帅 DIAO Jin-shuai ◽  
闫治晚 YAN Zhi-wan

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-258
Author(s):  
Tao Ding ◽  
Lumeng Fang ◽  
Ji-Qin Ni ◽  
Zhengxiang Shi ◽  
Baoming Li ◽  
...  

Abstract.With the rapid development of modern agriculture facilities, agricultural fans have been widely used due to their low pressure and large airflow characteristics. However, existing agricultural fans have large flow losses and low energy efficiencies. To increase the airflow and energy efficiency of these fans, optimization designs based on skewed and swept blades were carried out. First, a “DDZ” agricultural fan (a leaf model agricultural fan commonly used in China) was chosen as the archetype fan. Its performance curves and flow field distribution were obtained by performance testing and numerical simulation. Second, the stack lines of the skewed blade and swept blade were designed based on the original blade, 3 skewed blade parameters (skewed angle a, x direction control parameter kx, and y direction control parameter ky), and 3 swept blade design parameters (swept angle ß, z direction control parameter kz, and r direction control parameter kr). Finally, the optimal skewed blade design parameters (a = 16.8°, kx = 1.65, and ky = 0.5) and optimal swept blade design parameters (ß = 10.6°, kz = -0.33, and kr =0.6) were obtained using numerical simulations and orthogonal testing, which is a response surface method. The numerical simulation results showed that the airflow and energy efficiency ratios of the optimal skewed blade fan were increased by 4.3% and 20.5%, and those of the optimal swept blade fan were increased by 4.5% and 15.4%, respectively, in comparison with those of the original fan. The flow fields showed that the optimal skewed blade mainly reduced the radial flow at the blade root and the leakage flow. The optimal swept blade mainly reduced the leakage flow by changing the distribution of the static pressure on the blade surfaces. Keywords: Agricultural fan, Skewed-Swept blade, Numerical simulation, Optimization.


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