Fully and sequentially coupled acoustic-structural analysis of a muffler

This example demonstrates the solution of the acoustic field in the vicinity of a muffler in air caused by the vibrations of the muffler shell. Steady-state and transient dynamic computations are done using both the fully coupled and sequentially coupled acoustic-solid interaction procedures in Abaqus. In the fully coupled case the solid medium of the muffler is directly coupled to the enclosed and surrounding air in a single analysis. In the sequentially coupled case the muffler vibrations are considered to be independent of the loading effects of the surrounding air, while the acoustic vibrations of the surrounding air are forced by the motion of the muffler. This allows the muffler vibration and acoustic radiation problems to be solved in sequence, using the submodeling procedure in Abaqus. The results for the sequentially coupled model are verified by comparing them to the results from the fully coupled procedure.

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Acoustic, Shock, and Coupled Acoustic-Structural Analysis
Node-Based Submodeling

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