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On the use of absorbing layers to simulate the propagation of elastic waves in unbounded isotropic media using commercially available Finite Element packages
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In this article, the authors address methods to dramatically enhance computational efficiency by only meshing a local region of the material surrounding the defect; this reduction requires some kind of boundary, or boundary condition, which absorbs, rather than reflects, any waves arriving at the exterior of the modeled domain.Abstract:
Finite Element models for simulating wave propagation and scattering from defects are vital for ultrasonic methods in NDE. This article addresses methods to dramatically enhance computational efficiency by only meshing a local region of the material surrounding the defect; this reduction requires some kind of boundary, or boundary condition, which absorbs, rather than reflects, any waves arriving at the exterior of the modelled domain. A variety of approaches exist and we take two approaches, Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) and Absorbing Regions, selected specifically as they are readily implemented in commercially available Finite Element packages without requiring the source code. We illustrate both bulk and guided waves, and analysis is used to guide the performance, and thus to plan the use, of each of them. Finally, application examples illustrate the gains yielded by absorbing layer methods in terms of reducing both model size and unwanted reflections.read more
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A perfectly matched layer for the absorption of electromagnetic waves
TL;DR: Numerical experiments and numerical comparisons show that the PML technique works better than the others in all cases; using it allows to obtain a higher accuracy in some problems and a release of computational requirements in some others.
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Radiation boundary conditions for wave-like equations
Alvin Bayliss,Eli Turkel +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a sequence of radiating boundary conditions is constructed for wave-like equations, and it is proved that as the artificial boundary is moved to infinity the solution approaches the solution of the infinite domain as O(r exp -m-1/2) for the m-th boundary condition.
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Matrix techniques for modeling ultrasonic waves in multilayered media
TL;DR: This paper presents a review of the main developments of the matrix techniques, and their use in response and modal models, with emphasis on ultrasonics applications.
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A two-dimensional Fourier transform method for the measurement of propagating multimode signals
D. N. Alleyne,Peter Cawley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a two-dimensional Fourier transform (2D FFT) was used to measure the amplitudes and velocities of the Lamb waves propagating in a plate, the output of the transform being presented using an isometric projection which gives a three-dimensional view of the wave-number dispersion curves.
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Radiation boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave calculations
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