Improved algorithms and methods for room sound-field prediction by acoustical radiosity in arbitrary polyhedral rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 970-980

  Nosal, Eva Marie ^a,c   Hodgson, Murray ^a   Ashdown, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Heart Consultants Limited   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACOUSTICAL RADIOSITY; SOUND-FIELD PREDICTION METHOD;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; GEOMETRY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND;

EID: 4043176216     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1772400     Document Type: Article

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