The Thermoviscous Acoustic-Shell Interaction, Frequency Domain multiphysics interface (
), found under the
Acoustics>Thermoviscous Acoustics branch (
) when adding a physics interface, combines the Thermoviscous Acoustics, Frequency Domain and Shell interfaces. The physics interface solves for and has a predefined coupling between the displacement field of the shell and the acoustic variations in the fluid domains. It can be used, for example, for modeling the vibrating response of micromirrors in MEMS applications. The physics interface is available for 3D and 2D axisymmetric geometries, and it is capable of modeling the coupled thermoviscous acoustics and shell vibrations in the frequency domain.
When a predefined Thermoviscous Acoustic-Shell Interaction, Frequency Domain interface is added from the
Acoustics>Thermoviscous Acoustics branch of the
Model Wizard or the
Add Physics windows, the
Thermoviscous Acoustics, Frequency Domain and
Shell interfaces are added to the Model Builder.
In addition, the Multiphysics node is added, which automatically includes the multiphysics coupling
Thermoviscous Acoustic-Structure Boundary. This multiphysics coupling automatically couples the thermoviscous acoustic domain to exterior shells (on exterior boundaries) and to interior shells (on interior boundaries).
When a predefined multiphysics interface is used, for example Thermoviscous Acoustic-Shell Interaction, Frequency Domain, the
Selection on the multiphysics coupling is automatically set to
All boundaries. In this way, the multiphysics coupling is automatically active on all boundaries with
Thermoviscous Acoustics, Frequency Domain on one side (exterior shells) or on both sides (interior shells) of
Shell boundaries.
For example, if the single interfaces are added, COMSOL adds an empty Multiphysics node. You can choose the available multiphysics couplings, but you need to manually select on which boundaries they need to be applied, or select
All boundaries to recover the predefined behavior.
Physics nodes are available from the Physics ribbon toolbar (Windows users),
Physics context menu (Mac or Linux users), or right-click to access the context menu (all users).