A physical model of sound diffraction and reflections in the human concha

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3248-3259

  Lopez Poveda, Enrique A ^a   Meddis, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EXTERNAL EAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TURBINATES;

EID: 0029907536     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417208     Document Type: Article

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