Some practical considerations for predicting outdoor sound propagation in the presence of wind and temperature gradients

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-44

  Taherzadeh, S ^a   Li, K M ^a   Attenborough, K ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FFP; Inhomogeneous medium; Meteorological effects; Noise prediction; Outdoor sound propagation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

FAST FIELD PROGRAM; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; TURNING POINT THEORY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032074371     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(97)00069-8     Document Type: Article

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