Large-scale Acoustic Analysis Based on the Parallel Finite Element Method

Abstract

  Currently, in the design and evaluation of acoustic environments such as concert halls and live houses, the importance of acoustic analysis technology is increasing due to the dramatic performance improvement of computers in recent years. Due to the large-scale of the analysis area and expansion of the analysis frequency band, it is necessary to solve the large scale problem more than before in the wave acoustic analysis. Therefore, in this research, we are researching and developing a large-scale sound field analysis method based on the parallel finite element method. The iterative domain decomposition method is employed in the analysis method as parallel technique. In this research, pre-conditioners for the interface problem in the iterative domain decomposition method are considered. As a result, we have found that the balancing domain decomposition method is the most effective acoustical analysis. We also confirmed that the acoustic analysis code is very high accuracy with errors within the allowable range in a numerical analysis.