The effects of simple coupled volume geometry on the objective and subjective results from nonexponential decay

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1480-1490

  Bradley, David T ^a   Wang, Lily M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; GEOMETRY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACOUSTIC EFFECTS; COMPUTER MODELING PROGRAMS; COUPLED VOLUME SYSTEMS; COUPLING COEFFICIENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 24944578427     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1984892     Document Type: Article

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