A study of 2D and 3D barrier insertion loss using improved diffraction-based methods

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 53, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 49-75

  Muradali, A ^a   Fyfe, K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BARRIER INSERTION LOSS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031646651     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-682x(97)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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