Boundary element modeling of the external human auditory system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1033-1043

  Walsh, Timothy ^a   Demkowicz, Leszek ^b   Charles, Richard ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Sulzer Carbomedics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; HEARING AIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EARDRUM PRESSURES; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEMS;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BOUNDARY ELEMENT MODEL; EARDRUM; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; EXTERNAL EAR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HEAD; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; TECHNOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR, EXTERNAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRESSURE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 1542347074     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1643360     Document Type: Article

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