The insertion loss of screens under the influence of wind

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2692-2698

  Rasmussen, Karsten B ^a   Arranz, Marta Galindo ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; IMPEDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 0031762042     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423853     Document Type: Article

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