Numerical modeling of double-layered piezoelectric transducer systems using a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method

Computers and Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 17-18, 2008, Pages 1747-1756

  Brodal, Eivind ^a   Hesthaven, Jan S ^b   Melandsø, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin; Flex circuit; High order; Piezoelectric; PVDF; Transducer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GALERKIN METHODS; MODULATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TRANSDUCERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD (DGM); ELSEVIER (CO); FLEX CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN (FD); HIGH ORDER; LONGITUDINAL STRAIN; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST (NDT); NUMERICAL MODELLING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PLANE STRAIN PROBLEMS; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 47049084725     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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