Active control of axial-flow fan noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 341-349

  Lauchle, Gerald C ^a   MacGillivray, John R ^a   Swanson, David C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VENTILATOR;

EID: 0031013509     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.417979     Document Type: Article

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