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First, there is the wavelength which should still be resolved as in pressure acoustics, see Meshing: Resolving the Waves in Space in the Pressure Acoustics Interfaces chapter. This length scale is often resolved as the geometries are small when modeling thermoviscous acoustic phenomena in microacoustic applications.
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Secondly, there is the thickness of the viscous and thermal boundary layers. In order for the model to include the correct amount of damping, the boundary layers need to be resolved. Ideally this is done using a Boundary Layers mesh. The Thickness of first boundary layer (or All layers) and the Number of boundary layers should be set such that they resolve the boundary layer at the specific modeling frequency or for the frequency range. Remember that the boundary layer thickness scales as one over the square root of the frequency.
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Finally, it is important to consider the thickness of the boundary layer compared to the physical dimensions of the model, for example, the viscous boundary layer thickness δv compared to the tube radius a in a waveguide. This is sometimes known as the Womersley number
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