Patent ID: 8306790
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An acoustic characteristics optimization model analysis apparatus comprising a computer system including a control device, the control device comprising: a finite element model generation unit that generates on the basis of a structural configuration of a design model having a three-dimensional shape a finite element model for analyzing acoustic characteristics of the design model by a finite element method; a boundary element model generation unit that generates a boundary element model for analyzing the acoustic characteristics of the design model by a boundary element method on the basis of the finite element model; an acoustic transfer function calculation unit that calculates an acoustic transfer function for correlating displacement of a plurality of nodal points set between a plurality of element regions forming the boundary element model with a sound pressure transmitted from the boundary element model to a predetermined position outside the boundary element model in accordance with the displacement of the plurality of nodal points; a nodal point association unit that correlates the plurality of nodal points set for the boundary element model with a plurality of nodal points set between a plurality of element regions forming the finite element model; a sound pressure calculation unit that incorporates the plurality of nodal points of the finite element model correlated with the plurality of nodal points of the boundary element model by the nodal point association unit into the acoustic transfer function calculated by the acoustic transfer function calculation unit to calculate a sound pressure transmitted from the finite element model to the predetermined position; a shell model generation unit that generates a shell model by dividing a surface of the finite element model into a plurality of plate elements; an acoustic characteristics optimization model generation unit that superimposes the shell model on the surface of the finite element model to generate an acoustic characteristics optimization model; an acoustic characteristics optimization model change unit that virtually changes a thickness of each of the plate elements of the shell model through calculation for optimizing acoustic characteristics of the acoustic characteristics optimization model on the basis of a result of calculation performed by the sound pressure calculation unit without changing relative positional relationship between the plurality of plate elements of the shell model positioned on a surface of the acoustic characteristics optimization model and the predetermined position; and a determination unit that determines whether or not the acoustic characteristics of the acoustic characteristics optimization model in which the thickness of each of the plate elements of the shell model has been changed by the acoustic characteristics optimization model change unit have been optimized, wherein the acoustic characteristics optimization model change unit, on the basis of a result of calculation performed by the sound pressure calculation unit, further changes the thickness of each of the plate elements of the shell model to optimize the acoustic characteristics of the acoustic characteristics optimization model in the case where a result of determination performed by the determination unit is negative.