Model the propagation of elastic waves in solids and porous materials, for single-physics or multiphysics applications, such as vibration control, nondestructive testing (NDT), or mechanical feedback. Application areas range from micromechanical problems to seismic wave propagation.
The Solid Mechanics interface uses a full structural dynamics formulation that accounts for the effects of shear waves and pressure waves in solids and analyzes elastic waves. Mechanical port conditions can be used to excite and absorb propagating modes in waveguide structures and to compute a scattering matrix of a component.
A dedicated Poroelastic Waves interface is used to model the coupled propagation of elastic and pressure waves in porous materials solving Biot's equations.
The Elastic Waves, Time Explicit interface is dedicated to transient linear elastic waves propagation problems over large domains containing many wavelengths. The interface uses a higher order dG-FEM time explicit method. The interface is multiphysics enabled and can be seamlessly coupled to fluid domains.
Application areas:
Loudspeaker components
Cabinets
Drivers
Sound insulation and transmission in building materials
Detailed modeling of porous materials with poroelastic waves (Biot)
Vibration feedback problems
Seismic wave propagation
NDT
Ultrasonic weld analysis