Numerical modeling of the sound fields in urban squares

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3695-3706

  Kang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REVERBERATION;

EARLY DECAY TIME (EDT); RADIOSITY MODELS; REVERBERATION TIME (RT); SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL (SPL);

ACOUSTICS;

ARCHITECTURAL BARRIER; ARTICLE; BUILDING; COMPUTER MODEL; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE; TIME; URBAN AREA;

EID: 20444419784     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1904483     Document Type: Article

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