A theoretical study of special acoustic effects caused by the staircase of the EI Castillo pyramid at the Maya ruins of Chichen-Itza in Mexico

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3328-3335

  Declercq, Nico F ^a   Degrieck, Joris ^a   Briers, Rudy ^b   Leroy, Oswald ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b KATHO RENO Dept   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN; STAIRS;

ACOUSTIC EFFECTS; DELTA FUNCTION; ECHO; QUETZAL BIRD;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

RAIN; WATER;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEXICO; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 11144272673     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1764833     Document Type: Article

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