Estimating mid-frequency effects of aperture diffraction on reverberant-energy decay in coupled-room auditoria

Building Acoustics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-291

  Summers, Jason E ^a   Torres, Rendell R ^a   Shimizu, Yasushi ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YAMAHA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE DIFFRACTION; CIRCULAR APERTURE; HIGH-FREQUENCY MODELS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; MID-FREQUENCIES; SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS; SCHROEDER FREQUENCY; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33646658146     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1351010042900103     Document Type: Article

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