Ansys Mechanical Acoustics

Workshop 02.1: Car Acoustic Modes

Release 2021 R2

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 Goals and Summary Procedure

• Goals:
‐ Calculate the acoustic modes of an automobile cockpit cavity
‐ Determine the effect of an Absorption Coefficient applied to the seat surfaces on the modal
frequencies
• Procedure:
‐ Open an archived project
‐ Assign material “Air” to the cavity geometry
‐ Mesh the Geometry
‐ Define the Acoustics Region
‐ Specify Solution Settings and Solve
‐ Review mode summary
‐ Add Absorption condition to the model
‐ Solve and compare modal results

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 Project Schematic

• Start Ansys Workbench and open the project archive “Car Acoustic Modes.wbpz”
• Confirm that Engineering Data already contains a Material definition for “Air”
‐ Density and Speed of Sound are required properties
‐ Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity represent acoustic damping properties and are optional
• Open the Mechanical Application

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 Material Assignment

• The model geometry consists of the air domain within the automobile cockpit
‐ The seats are present as voids within the solid air domain
‐ Assign “Air” material to the geometry

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 Mesh

• Global Element Size

‐ Define a global element size of 5e-2 m
• Generate the Mesh

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 Acoustics Region

• There are no Structural components of the cockpit cavity modeled

‐ Recall the seats are modeled as voids within the air domain
• The Acoustics Region object in the tree defaults to All Bodies

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 Analysis Settings and Solution

• Analysis Settings defaults to searching for the first 6 modes

‐ Recommendation: use a non-zero beginning frequency within the modal Search Range
• Ignore Acoustic Damping in the model by setting this option in Damping Controls to Yes
‐ Otherwise, a Damped Solver must be chosen to accommodate the Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity
material properties defined in Engineering Data
• Solve the model

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 Results

• Modes are summarized in the Tabular Data

• View the mode shape for Mode 1 by inserting an Acoustic Pressure result

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 Duplicate the Model to Investigate Absorption Coefficient

• On the project page, right mouse button on the Results cell and Duplicate the analysis
• Return to Mechanical and note the newly created environment Modal Acoustics 2 (B5)

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 Assign Absorption Condition

• Within the newly created Environment, apply an Absorption Surface on the “Seats”
Named Selection by selecting Absorption Surface from the Acoustic Boundary
Conditions object in the Environment ribbon
‐ Define a coefficient of 0.5

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 Analysis Settings and Solution

• The Absorption Surface boundary condition creates a damping matrix, so use the
damped eigensolver to correctly include this damping matrix
‐ Activate the Damped solver in the Solver Controls section of Analysis Settings
• Solve the model

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 Results Comparison

• Compare the frequencies with and without the Absorption Surface Boundary
Condition:

Without Absorption With Absorption

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