Calculation of Sound Reduction by a Screen in a Turbulent Atmosphere Using the Parabolic Equation Method

Acustica

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 599-606

  Forssén, Jens ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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