Archives of Acoustics, 42, 1, pp. 37–48, 2017
10.1515/aoa-2017-0005

2D Structural Acoustic Analysis Using the FEM/FMBEM with Different Coupled Element Types

Leilei CHEN
Xinyang Normal University
China

Wenchang ZHAO
University of Science and Technology of China CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials
China

Cheng LIU
University of Science and Technology of China CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials
China

Haibo CHEN
University of Science and Technology of China CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials
China

A FEM-BEM coupling approach is used for acoustic fluid-structure interaction analysis. The FEM is used to model the structure and the BEM is used to model the exterior acoustic domain. The aim of this work is to improve the computational efficiency and accuracy of the conventional FEM-BEM coupling approach. The fast multipole method (FMM) is applied to accelerating the matrix-vector products in BEM. The Burton-Miller formulation is used to overcome the fictitious eigen-frequency problem when using a single Helmholtz boundary integral equation for exterior acoustic problems. The continuous higher order boundary elements and discontinuous higher order boundary elements for 2D problem are developed in this work to achieve higher accuracy in the coupling analysis. The performance for coupled element types is compared via a simple example with analytical solution, and the optimal element type is obtained. Numerical examples are presented to show the relative errors of different coupled element types.
Keywords: boundary element method; finite element method; discontinuous boundary elements; acoustic fluid-structure interaction; fast multipole method
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DOI: 10.1515/aoa-2017-0005