Modeling An Ultrasound Transducer

- February 25, 2022 at 1:23 am
  
  Mahyar92
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  Hi everyone,
  I need to model a capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) in ANSYS workbench. Basically, a CMUT is a clamped membrane which is electrically actuated to generate ultrasound to the fluid medium to which it is coupled. CMUTs are first biased with DC voltage, and then actuated with an AC signal to have dynamic motion.
- February 28, 2022 at 3:06 am
  
  peteroznewman
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  Does the fluid need to flow, or is it sufficient that the ultrasonic pressure waves travel through the fluid medium?
  Perhaps you can use Harmonic Acoustics to solve for the harmonic pressure in the fluid medium.
  In that way, you don't need Fluent at all.
- February 28, 2022 at 3:56 am
  
  Mahyar92
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  Hi Peter Thanks for your reply. To my understanding, Harmonic Acoustics won't take the damping effect of the fluid medium on the membrane into account. I did some search online and found out that apparently system coupling is not supported for Harmonic Analysis. So, I will perform a transient analysis instead to see how it works...

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