Simulation of Losses Due to Turbulence in the Time-Varying Vocal System

Flow separation in the vocal system at the outlet of a constriction causes turbulence and a fluid dynamic pressure loss. In articulatory synthesizers, the pressure drop associated with such a loss is usually assumed to be concentrated at one specific position near the constriction and is represented by a lumped nonlinear resistance to the flow. This paper highlights discontinuity problems of this simplified loss treatment when the constriction...