Comsol has upgraded the add-on acoustics module for Comsol Multiphysics to enable virtual prototyping of microphones, mobile devices, piezo-acoustic transducers, mufflers, and particulate filters.
This latest version of the acoustics module offers new capabilities and expanded multiphysics user interfaces for simulating thermoacoustic effects, poroelastic waves, acoustic-shell interactions and piezo-acoustic devices.
Additional application areas for the acoustics module include speakers, microphones and sonar devices, as well as noise control in areas such as muffler design, sound barriers and building acoustics.
The module's physics interfaces provide tools to model acoustic pressure wave propagation in air, water and other fluids.
The acoustics module also enables users to model vibrations and elastic waves in solids and piezoelectric materials, as well as their bidirectional interaction with a surrounding fluid.
The new capabilities of the acoustics module are fully compatible with all the Comsol add-on modules.
Any acoustics phenomena can link to any other physics effect - a feature that is crucial for real-world precision simulations of acoustics devices.
