Wave3000™ Plus

Software for Computational Ultrasonics

Wave3000™ Plus, is a stand-alone computer software package that generates solutions to a wide range of 3D ultrasonic (visco-elastic and piezoelectric wave propagation) problems, simulating received waveforms under a variety of spatial and temporal acoustic interrogations. Wave3000™ Plus allows the user to explore any number of experimental configurations, to determine "optimal" transducer arrangements, and to examine sensitivities of measurements to numerous variables of interest. To find out more, please review the basic applications and features shown below, read more about a visco-elastic only version of the software in About Wave3000™ and look at several examples for Wave3000™ in Wave3000™ Examples. In addition you can download Wave3000™ Plus, and obtain a free time limited license for program evaluation or obtain commercial or academic licenses as well by registering with us and logging in. Two examples illustrating the piezoelectric and orthotropic features of Wave3000™ Plus are included as part of the installation on your PC. Information on pricing is also available. Please Contact Us to discuss your intended application(s), for any other additional information you would like, or to order your copy of Wave3000™ Plus today.

Applications:

• Non-destructive testing and materials evaluation
• Ultrasound imaging and biomedical tissue characterization
• Transducer design studies. Please see our Transducer Modeling Tutorials.
• Geophysics
• Theoretical and applied research
• Academic/Educational

Features:

• Full time domain solution to the 3D visco-elastic wave equation (see the Wave2500 page for our 3D-axisymmetric ultrasound simulation software and the Wave2000 page for our full 2D ultrasound simulation software).
• Import a 3D object of any shape from an STL file, which can be created by a variety of CAD programs.
• Includes modeling of the piezoelectric aspects of a problem.
• Includes modeling for orthotropic materials.
• Allows for sources having prescribed time-dependent displacement or pressure input signals.
• Arbitrary (pixel by pixel) material object description
• Models longitudinal and shear propagation in solids and liquids, including mode conversions, as well as the coupled piezo-electric waves.
• Accounts for frequency dependent attenuation (viscous losses)
• Allows for a variety of source and receiver transducer configurations, as well as arbitrary boundary conditions
• Allows receiver measurements of displacement, pressure, velocity and acceleration.
• Allows transmitter and receiver arrays to be defined.
• Infinite (absorbing) boundary conditions.
• Wave simulation "playback" including "single stepping" through simulation.
• Extensive material libraries.
• Large selection of transducer apodizations.
• Batch processing.
• Automatic multiprocessor capability can almost linearly speed up simulation.
• Option to select a higher order numerical algorithm allowing for fewer grid elements.
• Ability to associate an arbitrary user-defined waveform for each source.
• "Point-source" option (displacement only).
• 64 bit support for PC's running Windows x64.