Numerical Simulations of Wind and Sound Propagation through an Idealised Stand of Trees

Acta Acustica (Stuttgart)

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 779-788

  Heimann, Dietrich ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SUBGRID CROWN ELEMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0141917465     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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