Ray tracing in a moving medium with two-dimensional sound-speed variation and application to sound propagation over terrain discontinuities

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1716-1726

  Daroux, P A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ihrig and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PRESSURE; SOUND; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THEORY; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 0027538396     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.406737     Document Type: Article

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