T. Matsumoto1, T. Yamada1, T. Takahashi1, C.J. Zheng2, S. Harada1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 77-94, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.078.077
Abstract Shape design and topology sensitivity formulations for acoustic problems based on adjoint method and the boundary element method are presented and are applied to shape sensitivity analysis and topology optimization of acoustic field. The objective function is assumed to consist only of boundary integrals and quantities defined at certain number of discrete points. The adjoint field is defined so that the sensitivity of the objective function does not include the unknown sensitivity coefficients of the sound pressures and particle velocities on the boundary and in the domain. Since the final sensitivity expression does not have More >