ISSN:
0029-5981
Keywords:
variational elements method
;
multipole expansion
;
acoustic radiation
;
variational formulation
;
Engineering
;
Numerical Methods and Modeling
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Technology
Notes:
The acoustic radiation of general structures with Neumann's boundary condition using Variational Boundary Element Method (VBEM) is considered. The classical numerical implementation of the VBEM suffers from the computation cost associated with double surface integration. To alleviate this limitation, a novel acceleration method is proposed. The method is based on the expansion of the cross influence matrices in terms of multipoles using the expansion of the Green's function in terms of spherical Bessel functions. Since the resulting multipoles are not dependent on the elements locations, large computation time savings are achieved. Moreover, it is shown that by accounting for the monopole, dipole and quadrupole terms in the multipole expansion, the classical convergence criteria usually used in boundary element guarantee convergence of the proposed method. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Additional Material:
9 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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