Fast Differentiable Modal Simulation of Non-linear Strings, Membranes, and Plates

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05940v2
• Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 10:47:33 GMT
• Title: Fast Differentiable Modal Simulation of Non-linear Strings, Membranes, and Plates
• Authors: Rodrigo Diaz, Mark Sandler,
• Abstract summary: Inverse modelling experiments demonstrate that our approach can recover physical parameters, including tension, stiffness, and geometry.<n>The code is released as open source to support future research and applications in differentiable physical modelling and sound synthesis.
• Score: 9.454497838382027
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Modal methods for simulating vibrations of strings, membranes, and plates are widely used in acoustics and physically informed audio synthesis. However, traditional implementations, particularly for non-linear models like the von K\'arm\'an plate, are computationally demanding and lack differentiability, limiting inverse modelling and real-time applications. We introduce a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated modal framework built with the JAX library, providing efficient simulations and enabling gradient-based inverse modelling. Benchmarks show that our approach significantly outperforms CPU and GPU-based implementations, particularly for simulations with many modes. Inverse modelling experiments demonstrate that our approach can recover physical parameters, including tension, stiffness, and geometry, from both synthetic and experimental data. Although fitting physical parameters is more sensitive to initialisation compared to other methods, it provides greater interpretability and more compact parameterisation. The code is released as open source to support future research and applications in differentiable physical modelling and sound synthesis.

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