Generating Artificial Reverberation via Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time Applications

We introduce a Virtual Studio Technology (VST) 2 audio effect plugin that performs convolution reverb using synthetic Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) generated via a Genetic Algorithm (GA). The parameters of the plugin include some of those defined under the ISO 3382-1 standard (e.g., reverberation time, early decay time, and clarity), which are used to determine the fitness values of potential RIRs so that the user has some control over the shape of the resulting RIRs. In the GA, these RIRs are initially generated via a custom Gaussian noise method, and then evolve via truncation selection, random weighted average crossover, and mutation via Gaussian multiplication in order to produce RIRs that resemble real-world, recorded ones. Binaural Room Impulse Responses (BRIRs) can also be generated by assigning two different RIRs to the left and right stereo channels. With the proposed audio effect, new RIRs that represent virtual rooms, some of which may even be impossible to replicate in the physical world, can be generated and stored. Objective evaluation of the GA shows that contradictory combinations of parameter values will produce RIRs with low fitness. Additionally, through subjective evaluation, it was determined that RIRs generated by the GA were still perceptually distinguishable from similar real-world RIRs, but the perceptual differences were reduced when longer execution times were used for generating the RIRs or the unprocessed audio signals were comprised of only speech.     

基于变换声学的角反射器的设计*

基于超材料的新型声学器件是近年来的研究热点,变换声学为这些新型声学器件的实现带来了可能。该文提出了一种基于变换声学的声反射器模型的设计方法。通过简单的线性映射,该声反射器具有均匀而各向异性的参数。利用Biot流体等效介质理论,通过周期分层结构可以对该反射器进行实现。仿真结果显示,在一定角度范围内,该反射器可以将声波按照入射方向进行反射,同时也验证了该结构的宽频有效性。     

大气运动非线性稳定性研究中的能量-Casimir方法

介绍使用能量－Ｃａｓｉｍｉｒ方法（Ａｒｎｏｌ＇ｄ方法）研究大气与海洋运动非线性稳定性所取得的若干新进展，建立了适用于有限振幅、任意空间结构扰动的非线性稳定性判据．用初始状态给出了扰动场在任意时刻的上界与下界估计，提供了关于扰动变化性态的有关信息．对该领域理论研究与应用的深化与发展问题也作了讨论．     

复模态理论在近海平台中的应用

运用复模态理论对考虑海洋平台结构与流体相互作用而引起的非经典阻尼问题进行了理论分析。水中耦合阻尼矩阵运用复模态解法，可以不必近似对角化。推导了随机波浪荷载作用下结构各种反应的能量谱密度函数及结构反应的统计特性，得到了结构反应的均方差和峰值的表达式。针对某典型平台在随机波浪荷载作用下动力反应用复模态法进行了计算并与运用实模态方法多重叠代方法的结果进行了比较。     

波涡相互作用研究的某些进展(Ⅱ)

<正> 5 波涡共振 从第3节的感受性问题再前进一步,自然要问在什么条件下入射波激发起涡中之波的最大响应.这就导致了入射波与层状或轴状涡中受激波之间共振的概念,简称波涡共振.一般说来,在流体内部若有两个或多个波相会,它们将互相穿透而沿原来的方向离去.但若它们的波矢量和频率满足一定的关系(参见Craik 1985),就会在相会点产生新的波.2阶扰动的振幅可达到1阶扰动振幅的量级,而且流场中会出现一些重要的独特性质.这就是流体内部波共振,波涡共振是其一类情形.     

不同滤波方法对揭示全球海洋条带结构的比较

海洋条带结构是近年物理海洋学研究的一个新热点. 在海洋中, 条带结构往往被大尺度环流过程所掩盖. 把这种隐蔽的海水运动现象显现出来的办法是对时间平均的速度场进行空间滤波. 利用全球简单海洋资料同化分析系统资料和中国科学院大气物理研究所大气科学和地球流体力学数值模拟国家重点实验室的气候系统海洋模式模拟数据对三种一维滤波方法进行了比较, 分别是常用的高斯和汉宁滤波方法, 以及本文引入的切比雪夫滤波方法. 结果表明, 尽管三种方法均可获得条带结构, 但以切比雪夫方法为最佳; 另外, 设计高通滤波器时需设定截断频率, 而它的选定取决于对具体数据的频谱分析, 当选取的归一化的截断频率值在0.1和0.4之间时, 可以有效地揭示出条带结构在全球海域内的分布. 因此本文的研究方法为海洋条带结构的深入研究提供了一个有力工具.     

大规模声学边界元法的GPU并行计算

提出一种大规模声学边界元法的高效率、高精度GPU并行计算方法.基于Burton-Miller边界积分方程,推导适于GPU的并行计算格式并实现了传统边界元法的GPU加速算法.为提高原型算法的效率,研究GPU数据缓存优化方法.由于GPU的双精度浮点运算能力较低,为了降低数值误差,研究基于单精度浮点运算实现的double-single精度算法.数值算例表明,改进的算法实现了最高89.8％的GPU使用效率,且数值精度与直接使用双精度数相当,而计算时间仅为其1/28,显存消耗也仅为其一半.该方法可在普通PC机(8GB内存,NVIDIA GeForce 660 Ti显卡)上快速完成自由度超过300万的大规模声学边界元分析,计算速度和内存消耗均优于快速边界元法.     

Effects of sound on flow separation from blunt flat plates

The effect of sound on the flow around plates with semicircular or square leading edges and square trailing edges located in a low turbulence open jet has been studied. In all circumstances the length of the leading edge separation bubbles associated with square leading edge plates was found to oscillate. When sound was applied to the flow around these plates, the leading edge shear layers reattached closer to the leading edge and the oscillations in bubble length occurred at the applied sound frequency, generating patches of concentrated vorticity in the boundary layers. These vorticity patches moved downstream near the plate surface and then beyond the trailing edge to form vortex cores in a street with a Strouhal number equal to the applied sound value. Sometimes these vortex streets are unstable and break down into streets with Strouhal numbers approaching those observed without sound. These effects of sound were not observed in the flow around plates with semicircular leading edges. Without sound, square leading edge plates of intermediate length did not shed regular vortex streets.     

Mass,momentum and total excess energy transported by a weak planeN wave

A weakly nonlinear plane acoustic wave is emitted into an ideal gas of semi-infinite extent from an infinite plate by its sinusoidal motion of single period. The wave develops into anN wave in the far field, as long as the energy dissipation is negligible everywhere except for discontinuous shock fronts. The third-order effects at shock fronts are evaluated, i.e., the generation of reflected acoustic wave as a result of the interaction of shock and expansion wave and the production of entropy by the energy dissipation at shock fronts. Consideration of these effects enables one to estimate the whole mass, momentum and total excess energy (sum of the kinetic energy and excess of internal energy over an initial undisturbed value) transported by theN wave to the accuracy of third order of wave amplitude. It is shown that the mass and total excess energy transported by theN wave increase and the momentum decreases to asymptotic limits as the wave propagates. The result shows good agreement with a numerical result obtained by solving the Euler equations with a high-resolution TVD upwind scheme.