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Modal Impedances and the Boundary Element Method: An Application to Horns and Ducts

Authors: Kolbrek, Bjørn

AES Convention 139 · Paper 9369 · October 2015

Abstract

Loudspeaker horns, waveguides, and other ducts can be simulated by general numerical methods, like the Finite Element or Boundary Element Methods (FEM or BEM), or by a method using a modal description of the sound field, called the Mode Matching Method (MMM). BEM and FEM can describe a general geometry but are often computationally expensive. MMM, on the other hand, is fast, easily scalable, requires no mesh generation and little memory but can only be applied to a limited set of geometries. This paper shows how BEM and MMM can be combined in order to efficiently simulate horns where part of the horn must be described by a general meshed geometry. Both BEM-MMM and MMM-BEM couplings are described, and examples given.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 139
AES Convention
139
Paper number
9369
Publication date
October 6, 2015
Session subject
Transducers/Perception
Affiliation
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper