Coupling boundary elements to a raytracing procedure

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 427-445

  Hampel, S ^a   Langer, S ^a,b   Cisilino, A P ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acoustics; BEM; Coupling; Hybrid method; Outdoor sound propagation; Raytracing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DIFFRACTION; REFRACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GEOMETRICAL ACOUSTICS; METHOD OF FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTION; SOUND PRESSURE;

RAY TRACING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DIFFRACTION; RAY TRACING; REFRACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 38349131360     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2080     Document Type: Article

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