Interior Lumped Speaker Boundary
The Interior Lumped Speaker Boundary is used to model a loudspeaker (dust cap, cone, and surround assembly) using a lumped representation with a coupling to an Electrical Circuit interface. The mechanical and electric properties of the speaker are described through a Thiele-Small representation and associated lumped parameters. Add this node from the Interior Conditions submenu. The interior version of the Lumped Speaker Boundary includes the effects of the fluid domains on both sides of the speaker boundary explicitly.
Speaker Geometry
Define how the Speaker area (projected) of the speaker is computed by selecting either Selected boundaries (the default) if all boundaries are present, or Use symmetries if only the speaker surface is partially represented. Enter the Speaker area multiplication factor Ascale (default is 1). The settings are required in order to compute the effective area of the speaker.
Define the Speaker axis direction eax by selecting Automatic (the default) or User defined. For the automatic option the axis is computed as the average of the surface normals, this option is valid if a full speaker surface is selected. The user defined option should be used if the speaker surface is only partially represented.
For the Automatic option select Reverse automatic speaker axis direction if necessary. The axis orientation can be visualized by plotting the axis components acpr.ilsb1.e_axx, acpr.ilsb1.e_axy, and acpr.ilsb1.e_axz. (using the proper item and physics scope).
Circuit
This section gives information about the state of coupling/connection to an Electrical Circuit interface. If the Interior Lumped Speaker Boundary is not connected the text Connect to ‘External I vs. U’ in the Electrical Circuit interface text will be displayed. Once connected a reference with a tag to the associated External I vs. U node, in the Electrical Circuit interface, is displayed.
Lumped Loudspeaker Driver: Application Library path Acoustics_Module/Electroacoustic_Transducers/lumped_loudspeaker_driver
Headphone on an Artificial Ear: Application Library path Acoustics_Module/Electroacoustic_Transducers/headphone_artificial_ear