A comparison of two engineering models for outdoor sound propagation: Harmonoise and Nord2000

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 282-289

  Jónsson, Gunnar Birnir ^a   Jacobsen, Finn ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ENGINEERING MODELS; NOISE BARRIERS; TERRAIN PROFILES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 42149178490     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918031     Document Type: Article

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