Transport of phase space densities through tetrahedral meshes using discrete flow mapping

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

卷:328

Article

Bajars, Janis¹  Chappell, David J.¹  Sondergaard, Niels²  Tanner, Gregor³ 

[1] Nottingham Trent Univ, Sch Sci & Technol, Clifton Campus,Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS, England

[2] inuTech GmbH, Further St, D-90429 Nurnberg, Germany

[3] Univ Nottingham, Sch Math Sci, Univ Pk, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England

关键词: Statistical energy analysis;    High frequency asymptotics;    Ray tracing;    Frobenius-Perron operator;    Vibro-acoustics;    Geometrical optics/acoustics;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jcp.2016.10.019

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Discrete flow mapping was recently introduced as an efficient ray based method determining wave energy distributions in complex built up structures. Wave energy densities are transported along ray trajectories through polygonal mesh elements using a finite dimensional approximation of a ray transfer operator. In this way the method can be viewed as a smoothed ray tracing method defined over meshed surfaces. Many applications require the resolution of wave energy distributions in three-dimensional domains, such as in room acoustics, underwater acoustics and for electromagnetic cavity problems. In this work we extend discrete flow mapping to three-dimensional domains by propagating wave energy densities through tetrahedral meshes. The geometric simplicity of the tetrahedral mesh elements is utilised to efficiently compute the ray transfer operator using a mixture of analytic and spectrally accurate numerical integration. The important issue of how to choose a suitable basis approximation in phase space whilst maintaining a reasonable computational cost is addressed via low order local approximations on tetrahedral faces in the position coordinate and high order orthogonal polynomial expansions in momentum space. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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