On the use of a diffusion model for acoustically coupled rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2043-2054

  Billon, Alexis ^a   Valeau, Vincent ^a,c   Sakout, Anas ^a   Picaut, Judicaël ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b Laboratoire Centrale de Ponts et Chausées   (France)

^c Laboratoire d'Etudes Aerodynamiques Poitiers   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICALLY COUPLED ROOMS; DIFFUSION MODELS; OPEN APERTURES; SOUND ENERGY DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 33749557659     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2338814     Document Type: Article

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