Partitioned Co-Simulation for CAD-integrated Vibroacoustic Problems in Unbounded Domains
Abstract
Vibroacoustic analysis often requires coupling structural and acoustic solvers based on different numerical formulations and discretizations, making monolithic implementations intrusive and limiting software modularity and reuse. This work presents a partitioned co-simulation framework for exterior vibroacoustic analysis that couples an Isogeometric boundary representation analysis (IBRA) structural solver with an isogeometric boundary element method (IGA-BEM) acoustic solver. The methodology operates directly on the computer-aided design (CAD) boundary representation, preserving the exact geometry throughout the analysis and supporting both weak and strong coupling between non-conforming discretizations. A key contribution is the extension of the Aitken dynamic relaxation and Interface Quasi-Newton with Inverse Least-Squares (IQN-ILS) convergence accelerators to complex-valued interface quantities, allowing the coupling iterations to account directly for both amplitude and phase information. The approach is validated using one-way and two-way coupled vibroacoustic benchmark problems involving thin-shell structures and exterior acoustic domains. The results show excellent agreement with monolithic reference solutions, while the proposed complex-valued convergence accelerators improve the robustness and convergence behavior of the strongly coupled solution procedure without compromising solution accuracy. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach provides an accurate, robust, and modular approach for CAD-integrated frequency-domain vibroacoustic analysis.
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BibTeX
@misc{camarotti2026partitioned,
title = {{Partitioned Co-Simulation for CAD-integrated Vibroacoustic Problems in Unbounded Domains}},
author = {J. I. Camarotti and P. Le and Y. Cai and R. Aristio and D. Panagiotopoulos and R. Wüchner and E. Deckers},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.15384},
eprint = {2609.15384},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15384},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Partitioned Co-Simulation for CAD-integrated Vibroacoustic Problems in Unbounded Domains
AU - J. I. Camarotti
AU - P. Le
AU - Y. Cai
AU - R. Aristio
AU - D. Panagiotopoulos
AU - R. Wüchner
AU - E. Deckers
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/14
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.15384
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15384
AB - Vibroacoustic analysis often requires coupling structural and acoustic solvers based on different numerical formulations and discretizations, making monolithic implementations intrusive and limiting software modularity and reuse. This work presents a partitioned co-simulation framework for exterior vibroacoustic analysis that couples an Isogeometric boundary representation analysis (IBRA) structural solver with an isogeometric boundary element method (IGA-BEM) acoustic solver. The methodology operates directly on the computer-aided design (CAD) boundary representation, preserving the exact geometry throughout the analysis and supporting both weak and strong coupling between non-conforming discretizations. A key contribution is the extension of the Aitken dynamic relaxation and Interface Quasi-Newton with Inverse Least-Squares (IQN-ILS) convergence accelerators to complex-valued interface quantities, allowing the coupling iterations to account directly for both amplitude and phase information. The approach is validated using one-way and two-way coupled vibroacoustic benchmark problems involving thin-shell structures and exterior acoustic domains. The results show excellent agreement with monolithic reference solutions, while the proposed complex-valued convergence accelerators improve the robustness and convergence behavior of the strongly coupled solution procedure without compromising solution accuracy. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach provides an accurate, robust, and modular approach for CAD-integrated frequency-domain vibroacoustic analysis.
ER -