Design of a jagged-edge noise barrier: Numerical and experimental study

Noise Control Engineering Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 210-224

  Menounou, Penèlope ^a   You, Jeong Ho ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DIRECTIVE LINE SOURCE MODEL (DLSM); NOISE BARRIERS; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND SOURCES;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 15744402962     PISSN: 07362501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3397/1.2839751     Document Type: Article

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