Comparison of an analytic horn equation approach and a boundary element method for the calculation of sound fields in the human ear canal

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2405-2411

  Stinson, Michael R ^a   Daigle, Gilles A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PISTONS;

CANAL LENGTH; LONGITUDINAL VARIATIONS; TRANSVERSE VARIATIONS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CALCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR CANAL; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; SOUND;

EID: 26844532752     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2005947     Document Type: Article

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