Zhaoyan Zhang Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UCLA School of Medicine
31-24 Rehab Center, 1000 Veteran Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1794
Email: zyzhang at ucla.edu
Research Interests
Fluid-structure interaction in voice production
Nonlinear dynamic modeling of normal and pathological voice production
Biomechanics of vocal folds
Physical correlates of voice quality
Vocal tract acoustics
Recent Projects
Recent Presentations
Zhang, Z., Neubauer, J., and Berry, D., Physical mechanisms of phonation onset: influence of flow separation on phonation onset, 153rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2007.
Journal Publications
Zhang, Z., Neubauer, J., Berry, D.A. (2009), Influence of vocal fold stiffness and acoustic loading on flow-induced vibration of a single-layer vocal fold model, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 322, 299-313. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., (2009), Characteristics of phonation onset in a two-layer vocal fold model, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 125(2), 1091-1102. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., (2008), Influence of flow separation location on phonation onset, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 124(3), 1689-1694. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Neubauer, J., Berry, D.A., (2007), Physical mechanisms of phonation onset: a linear stability analysis of an aeroelastic continuum model of phonation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122(4), 2279-2295. [pdf]
Neubauer, J., Zhang, Z., Miraghaie, R., Berry, D.A., (2007), Coherent structures of the nearfield flow in a self-oscillating physical model of the vocal folds, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121(2), 1102-1118. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Neubauer, J., Berry, D.A., (2006), Aerodynamically and acoustically driven modes of vibration in a physical model of the vocal folds, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120(5), 2841-2849. [pdf]
Berry, D.A., Zhang, Z., Neubauer, J., (2006), Mechanisms of irregular vibration in a physical model of the vocal folds, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120(3), EL36-42. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Neubauer, J., Berry, D.A., (2006), The influence of subglottal acoustics on laboratory models of phonation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120(3), 1558-1569. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Mongeau, L., (2006), Broadband sound generation by confined pulsating jets in a mechanical model of the human larynx, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 119(6), 3995-4005. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Mongeau, L., Frankel, S., Thomson, S., Park, J., (2004), Sound generation by steady flow through glottis shaped orifices, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116(3), 1720-1728. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Espy-Wilson, C., (2004), A vocal tract model of American English /l/, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115(3), 1274-1280. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Mongeau, L., Frankel, S., (2002), Experimental verification of the quasi-steady approximation for aerodynamic sound generation by pulsating jets in tubes, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 112(4), 1652-1663. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Mongeau, L., Frankel, S., (2002), Broadband sound generation by confined turbulent jets, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 112(2), 677-689. [pdf]
Conference Papers
Zhang, Z., Espy-Wilson, C., Boyce, S., Tiede, M., (2005), Modeling of the front cavity and sublingual space in American English rhotic sounds, Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 893-896. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Espy-Wilson, C., Tiede, M., (2003), Acoustic modeling of American English lateral approximants, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Geneva, Switzerland, 2393-2396. [pdf]
Zhang, Z., Boyce, S., Espy-Wilson, C., Tiede, M., (2003), Acoustic strategies for production of American English retroflex /r/, Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPHS), Barcelona, Spain, 1125-1128. [pdf]
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