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Percussion Instrument Modelling In 3D: Sound Synthesis Through Time Domain Numerical Simulation

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Ch. 5 - Coupling with the acoustic field in 3D

The 3D wave equation for the acoustic field is the main subject of this chapter. The basic equations in terms of an acoustic velocity potential are first discussed in the lossless case. Then, the numerical discretisation of this model is performed. The core of the chapter deals with embeddings, that is the coupling between 2D structures and the 3D field. After describing the simple case of a linear membrane, air coupling is extended to several different systems, including Berger nonlinearity, von Kármán nonlinearity, the mallet/membrane collision and the string/membrane collisions. Air coupling in the presence of von Kármán nonlinearity and collisions is one of the contributions of this work.


Table of contents

Abstract

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Linear plate vibration

Chapter 3 - Nonlinear plate vibration

Chapter 4 - Collisions

Chapter 5 - Coupling with the acoustic field in 3D

Chapter 6 - Virtual instruments

Chapter 7 - Summary and conclusions

Appendix A - Experimental investigation of nonlinearities in drum membranes

Appendix B - Finite precision effects in FDTD schemes

Appendix C - Iterative methods for linear systems