Vibrational patterns of a violin-shaped air cavity obtained by finite element modeling

Acustica

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 584-586

  Bretos, J ^a   Santamarfa, C ^a   Alonso Moral, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Conservatorio Sup Musica Bilbao J ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

VIOLIN-SHAPED AIR CAVITY;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0032596243     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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