Physics-informed neural networks for one-dimensional sound field predictions with parameterized sources and impedance boundaries

JASA Express Lett. 2021 Dec;1(12):122402. doi: 10.1121/10.0009057.

Abstract

Realistic sound is essential in virtual environments, such as computer games and mixed reality. Efficient and accurate numerical methods for pre-calculating acoustics have been developed over the last decade; however, pre-calculating acoustics makes handling dynamic scenes with moving sources challenging, requiring intractable memory storage. A physics-informed neural network (PINN) method in one dimension is presented, which learns a compact and efficient surrogate model with parameterized moving Gaussian sources and impedance boundaries and satisfies a system of coupled equations. The model shows relative mean errors below 2%/0.2 dB and proposes a first step in developing PINNs for realistic three-dimensional scenes.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Electric Impedance
  • Neural Networks, Computer*
  • Physics
  • Sound*