Incident Plane Wave
Incident Plane Wave
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I am trying to model the scattering of biological cell. So far what I have is a solid sphere (cell with elastic properties) inside a hollow sphere (FLUID-Water) with fluid-solid interface and aborption boundary. Technically, this is a fluid-structure coupled acoustic analysis.
Only thing I am having trouble with is creating an incident plane wave. I used plwave command but it doesnt work.
"Main Menu>Preprocessor>Loads>Define Loads>Apply>Electric>Excitation>Define Wave"
Above is the menu path to define the plane wave. But the "Electric" option has disappeared for some reason and I am not able to access it. I even tried turning on all the options in "Preferences" but it still wouldnt show up.
Any Acoustic genius out there?
Only thing I am having trouble with is creating an incident plane wave. I used plwave command but it doesnt work.
"Main Menu>Preprocessor>Loads>Define Loads>Apply>Electric>Excitation>Define Wave"
Above is the menu path to define the plane wave. But the "Electric" option has disappeared for some reason and I am not able to access it. I even tried turning on all the options in "Preferences" but it still wouldnt show up.
Any Acoustic genius out there?





RE: Incident Plane Wave
SOLID45 (solid sphere)
FLUID30 (water-with both structure present and absent option )
FLUID130 (Absorption Boundary)
RE: Incident Plane Wave
Did you already try "Preprocessor>Physics>Coupled Solvers>Elec/Struc"?
RE: Incident Plane Wave
This is exactly what I had in my mind. I have to define HF series element types which has electro-magnetic properties. I tried Preprocessor>Physics>Coupled Solvers>Elec/Struc, but dont know how to play around with it. Anyhow, there must be another approach to this problem. Thanks a lot for your help.