Acoustic Structure Interaction Studies of Fiber Optic Mandrel
Acoustic - Structure Interaction Studies of Fiber Optic Mandrel Hydrophone using COMSOL Multiphysics® 1 Pradeep , 2 V , 2 Rajesh , 2 Lav. Kumar and 2 Moosad Ashida Sreehari C R KPB 1 Department of Electronics Engineering, Govt. Model Engineering College, KL, India 2 Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory, KL, India Introduction: Optimization of the performance parameters (viz. sensitivity and acoustic receiving bandwidth) of fiber optic hydrophone is the major aim of this research work. To achieve an optimum design, FEM analysis using COMSOL Multiphysics® was used. The design was optimized using structural mechanics module. Finally, hydrophone with the optimized design was studied using the acoustic module. Figure 4. Meshed configuration of the hydrophone structure Figure 5. Radial displacement of the hydrophone for different conditions Figure 6. Comparison of Analytical and COMSOL results of the hydrophone’s frequency response Figure 1. Block diagram of Fiber optic mandrel hydrophone system Numerical Model and Simulation: 1. Structural mechanics study : - Geometry of the hydrophone was drawn in 2 D axi-symmetric platform of COMSOL (Fig. 2). Frequency domain analysis was done and radial displacement of the mandrel shell (blue colour in Fig. 2) is given in Fig. 3. Figure 2. Meshed geometry of the hydrophone design in 2 D Axisymmetric study Figure 3. Radial displacement of the hydrophone shell 2. Acoustic-Structure Interaction study : Acoustic pressure in the form of a plane harmonic wave of 1 Pa maximum amplitude was applied with a maximum frequency of 20 k. Hz to the water domain surface. The meshed configuration with water domain and PML are shown in Fig. 4 and radial displacement is shown in Fig. 5. Results: A sensitivity of -151. 5 d. B re 1 V/µPa at 1 k. Hz was obtained, which is close to the analytical model results. The comparison is given in Fig. 6. Conclusions: Design of a fiber optic mandrel hydrophone was analyzed using 2 D axi-symmetric modeling in COMSOL Multiphysics and the design was optimized for required performance parameters. At 1 k. Hz, a radial displacement of 4 pm was obtained which corresponds to an acoustic sensitivity of -151. 5 d. B re 1 V/µPa. With the help of COMSOL Multiphysics, the performance of fiber optic mandrel hydrophones was analyzed in the design stage. This modeling will be helpful in design optimization of various mandrel hydrophones with required sensitivity and band width. References: 1. C. K. Kirkendall and A. Dandridge, Overview of high performance fibre-optic sensing, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 37, 197 -216 (2004). 2. M. Anghinolfi, A. Calvi, A. Cotrufo, M. Ivaldi, O. Yershova, F. Parodi, D. Piombo, A. Plotnikov and L. Repetto, A fiber optic air backed mandrel hydrophone to detect high energy hadronic showers in the water, SIS Publications, INFN, Sezione di Genova (2006). Excerpt from the Proceedings of the 2018 COMSOL Conference in Bangalore
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