I/O Options and Subcase Information
Entry Used in the I/O Options section or in frequency response (direct and modal) subcases to
request acoustic power radiated across a panel.
Format
ACPOWER (format) = option
Definitions
Argument |
Options |
Description |
format |
<H3D, PCH, blank> |
- H3D
- Results are output in Hyper3D format (.h3d file).
- PCH
- Results are output in Punch format (.pch file).
- Blank (Default)
- Results are output in all active formats for which the
result is available.
|
option |
<YES, ALL,
NO, NONE> |
- YES, ALL (Default), blank
- The acoustic power is computed for all panels defined by
PANELG with
ACPOWER type in the Bulk section.
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- NO,
NONE
- Acoustic Power is not output.
|
Comments
- The result is output for every
PANELG entry whose type is
ACPOWER. In this case, PANELG also
accommodates a SURF entry.
- Multiple formats are allowed on the
same entry; these should be comma-separated. If a format is not specified,
this output control applies to all formats defined by the
OUTPUT command, for which the result is
available.
- Multiple instances of this card are
allowed; if instances are conflicting, the last instance dominates.
- The acoustic power is calculated
using the surface integral of the real part
(
) of acoustic intensity
. (1)
Where,
-
- Surface area of the panel
-
- Local normal of the surface
The expression for acoustic intensity is related to the nodal
pressure (
) and the complex conjugate of the
particle velocity (
), given by:
(2)
- The calculation of
ACPOWER in decibels (dB) is performed using the
PARAM, ACPREFDB, for which the following equation is
used. ACPREFDB is the reference value of the
power.(3)