Measurement of audience seat absorption for use in geometrical acoustics software

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 77-82

  Summers, Jason E ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS SOFTWARE; AUDIENCE SEAT; GEOMETRICAL ACOUSTICS (GA); LAMBERT MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; REVERBERATION; SCATTERING; SEATS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 3042553218     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1582072     Document Type: Article

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