An Investigation of Loudspeaker Simulation Efficiency and Accuracy Using a Conventional Model, a Near-to-Far-Field Transformation, and the Rayleigh Integral

Skov U, Christensen R. An Investigation of Loudspeaker Simulation Efficiency and Accuracy Using a Conventional Model, a Near-to-Far-Field Transformation, and the Rayleigh Integral. In: AES Convention 136. Audio Engineering Society; 2014. Paper 9057. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17204

@inproceedings{Skov2014_17204,
  author = {Skov, Ulrik and Christensen, René},
  title = {{An Investigation of Loudspeaker Simulation Efficiency and Accuracy Using a Conventional Model, a Near-to-Far-Field Transformation, and the Rayleigh Integral}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 136},
  note = {Paper 9057},
  year = {2014},
  month = apr,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17204}
}

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AB  - Simulation on loudspeaker drivers require a conventional fully coupled vibroacoustic model to capture both the effect of the loading mass of the air on the moving parts and the geometric topology of the cone, dust cap, and surround. An accurate vibroacoustic model can be time-consuming to solve, especially in 3-D. In practical applications, this results in poor efficiency concerning the decision-making process to move on to the next simulation model. To overcome this the loudspeaker designer can use either a near-to-far-field transformation or post-process structural only results via the Rayleigh integral to reduce or totally eliminate the computationally demanding open air domain in front of the speaker. These simplifications come with the cost of a frequency dependent inaccuracy. This paper compares for three different drivers (a totally flat, a concave cone, and a convex dome) the efficiency and accuracy of a conventional fully-coupled vibroacoustic model where the measurement point is included in the computational FEA domain with respectively, a reduced air domain model having the measurement point outside the computational FEA domain obtained by a near-to-far-field transformation, and a model relying on the structural only Rayleigh integral post-processing.
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