The Pressure Acoustics, Time Explicit (pate) interface (
), found under the
Acoustics>Pressure Acoustics branch (
) when adding a physics interface, is used to compute the pressure variation when modeling the propagation of acoustic waves in fluids at quiescent background conditions. The interface is used to solve large transient linear acoustic problems containing many wavelengths. It is suited for time-dependent simulations with arbitrary time-dependent sources and fields. The interface includes a
Background Acoustic Field option for modeling of scattering problems. Absorbing layers are used to set up effective nonreflecting-like boundary conditions. The exterior field can be calculated by combining the Exterior Field Calculation feature with a Time to Frequency FFT study step. The interface exists in 2D, 2D axisymmetric, and 3D.
When this physics interface is added, these default nodes are also added to the Model Builder —
Pressure Acoustics Time Explicit Model,
Sound Hard Boundary (Wall), and
Initial Values. Then, from the
Physics toolbar, add other nodes that implement, for example, boundary conditions and source. You can also right-click
Pressure Acoustics, Time Explicit to select physics features from the context menu.
The Label is the default physics interface name.
The Name is used primarily as a scope prefix for variables defined by the physics interface. Refer to such physics interface variables in expressions using the pattern
<name>.<variable_name>. In order to distinguish between variables belonging to different physics interfaces, the
name string must be unique. Only letters, numbers, and underscores (_) are permitted in the
Name field. The first character must be a letter.
The default Name (for the first physics interface in the model) is
pate.
To display this section, click the Show More Options button (
) and select
Advanced Physics Options. In the
Filter Parameters for Absorbing Layers section you can change and control the values set for the filter used in the
Absorbing Layers. The values of the filter parameters defined here are used in all absorbing layers added to the model and they override the value of filter parameters enabled in the material model (
Pressure Acoustics, Time Explicit Model). The default values of the filter parameters
α,
ηc, and
s are set to 0.1, 0.01, and 2, respectively. Inside the absorbing layer it is important to use a filter that is not too aggressive since this will result in spurious reflections.
The settings selected here are only used if the transient solution solved is transformed into the frequency domain using the Time to Frequency FFT study. The zero level on the dB scale varies with the type of fluid. That value is a reference pressure that corresponds to
0 dB. This variable occurs in calculations of the sound pressure level
Lp based on the root mean square (rms) pressure
prms, such that
where pref is the reference pressure and the star (*) represents the complex conjugate. This is an expression valid for the case of harmonically time-varying acoustic pressure
p.
User-defined reference pressure to enter a reference pressure
pref, SPL (SI unit: Pa). The default value is the same as for air,
20 μPa.
In this section you can select the discretization for the Acoustic pressure and
Acoustic velocity. Per default both are set to
Quartic (4th order). Using quartic elements together with a mesh size equal to approximately half the wavelength to be resolved, leads to the best performance when using the DG method. For further details see the
Meshing, Discretization, and Solvers section.
The dependent variables are the Acoustic pressure, and the
Acoustic velocity. The names can be changed, but the names of fields and dependent variables must be unique within a model. The name for the
Acoustic velocity,
components can also be selected individually.