Shape optimization of a loudspeaker diaphragm with respect to sound directivity properties

Control and Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-198

  Christensen, Søren T ^a   Olhoff, Niels ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Boundary element method; Finite element method; Loudspeaker sound directivity; Optimum design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032352180     PISSN: 03248569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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