Vibrating Micromirror with Viscous and Thermal Damping: Transient Behavior
Application ID: 49481
Micromirrors are used in certain MEMS devices to control optic elements. This example model illustrates a mirror that is initially actuated for a short time and then exhibits damped vibrations.
It simulates a vibrating micromirror surrounded by air and uses the Thermoviscous Acoustics, Transient, the Shell, and the Pressure Acoustics, Transient interfaces to model the fluid-solid interaction in the time domain. Use of the Thermoviscous Acoustics interface provides full details of viscous and thermal damping of the mirror in relation to the surrounding air.
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