Nearfield broadband array design using a radially invariant modal expansion

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 392-403

  Abhayapala, Thushara D ^a   Kennedy, Rodney A ^a   Williamson, Robert C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0033987566     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428311     Document Type: Article

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