When is diffuse-field theory applicable?

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-207

  Hodgson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE; REVERBERATION; SURFACES;

DIFFUSE FIELD THEORY; REVERBERATION TIME; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SOUND DECAY; SOUND FIELDS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030286461     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(96)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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