Modelling of sound fields in enclosed spaces with absorbent room surfaces. Part I: Performance spaces

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Dance, S M ^a   Shield, B M ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enclosed spaces; Mathematical modelling; Millington formula; Reverberation time; Sound fields; Sound propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000251169     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(98)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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