Directional Sources in Wave-Based Acoustic Simulation

Volumetric wave-based acoustic simulation relies on the complete solution to the three-dimensional wave equation over a spatial grid. Detailed modeling of sources, however, requires interpolation over the grid, which is complicated by the directional character of the source itself. In this paper, a new model of point sources of arbitrary directivity and location with respect to an underlying grid is presented. The model is framed in the spatio-temporal domain directly through the differentiation of Dirac distributions, leading to a spatial Fourier-based approximation strategy. Various approximants are presented, of both separable and nonseparable type, which allow for optimization over a specified wavenumber range. Such approximants are then employed in a finite difference time domain setting, yielding numerical results for sources of various types, which are then compared against exact solutions.

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