Statistical-acoustics models of energy decay in systems of coupled rooms and their relation to geometrical acoustics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 958-969

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

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c YAMAHA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CURVE FITTING; ENERGY TRANSFER; ERROR CORRECTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REVERBERATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENERGY DECAY; STATISTICAL-ACOUSTICS MODELS; SUBROOMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 4043108310     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1763974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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