Linearly-implicit schemes for collisions in musical acoustics based on energy quadratisation

Michele Ducceschi, Stefan Bilbao, Silvin Willemsen, Stefania Serafin

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Abstract

Collision modelling represents an active field of research in musical acoustics. Common examples of collisions include the hammer-string interaction in the piano, the interaction of strings with fretboards and fingers, the membrane-wire interaction in the snare drum, reed-beating effects in wind instruments, and others. At the modelling level, many current approaches make use of conservative potentials in the form of power-laws, and discretisations proposed for such models rely in all cases on iterative root-finding routines. Here, a method based on energy quadratisation of the nonlinear collision potential is proposed. It is shown that there exists a suitable discretisation of such a model that may be resolved in a single iteration, while guaranteeing stability via energy conservation. Applications to the case of lumped as well as fully distributed systems will be given, using both finite-difference and modal methods.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3502-3516
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume149
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2021
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: The first author wishes to acknowledge the Royal Society of London and the Leverhulme Trust, who have supported this research with a Newton International Fellowship and an Early Career Fellowship. Dr. Vasileios Chatziioannou is kindly acknowledged for a fruitful debate around the properties of the numerical schemes presented here. The anonymous reviewers are also thanked for their suggestions.

Funding

The first author wishes to acknowledge the Royal Society of London and the Leverhulme Trust, who have supported this research with a Newton International Fellowship and an Early Career Fellowship. Dr. Vasileios Chatziioannou is kindly acknowledged for a fruitful debate around the properties of the numerical schemes presented here. The anonymous reviewers are also thanked for their suggestions.

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Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society

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