This paper presents a source/resonator model of hammer-string interaction that produces realistic piano sound. The source is generated using a subtractive signal model. Digital waveguides are used to simulate the propagation of waves in the resonator. This hybrid model allows resynthesis of the vibration measured on an experimental setup. In particular, the nonlinear behavior of the hammer-stri...

Recent experimental observations of otoacoustic emissions suggest the existence of spontaneous emitters of sound on the basilar membrane. These tend to send off waves not only in the normal direction of propagation. It is therefore significant to study the environmental conditions such an emitter finds inside the cochlea. The impedance relations seen by these emitters are described by the Ricca...

A plane-wave-expansion method suited to the analysis of surface-acoustic-wave propagation in two-dimensional piezoelectric phononic crystals is described. The surface modes of a square-lattice Y-cut lithium niobate phononic crystal with circular void inclusions with a filling fraction of 63% are identified. It is found that a large full band gap with a fractional bandwidth of 34% exists for sur...

We consider a firing rate model of a neural network of excitatory and inhibitory populations with an excitatory feedforward connectivity. We analyze traveling wave solutions and determine the conditions for their existence and stability. Our study demonstrates the role of inhibition in stable pulse propagation. In a purely excitatory network, pulse waves are unstable because of the existence of...

This work is dedicated to the analysis of Berenger PML method applied to the 3D linearized Euler equations without advection terms, with variable wave velocity and acoustic impedance. It is an extension of a previous work presented in a 2D context [8]. The 3D linearized Euler equations are used to simulate propagation of acoustic waves beneath the subsurface. We propose an analysis of these equ...

The results are presented of a field experiment on debris flow monitoring that were obtained in the summer of 1996 in a small mountain torrent in the Italian Alps. A network of seismic detectors was placed about one kilometre upstream of some previously existing gauging stations equipped with ultrasonic devices. In June and July two debris flows occurred, which were recorded both by the seismic...

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