Noise reduction by a barrier having a random edge profile

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2669-2676

  Ho, Steve S T ^a   Busch Vishniac, Ilene J ^a   Blackstock, David T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030921724     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418508     Document Type: Article

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