An approximate treatment of reflection coefficient in the phased beam tracing method for the simulation of enclosed sound fields at medium frequencies

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 601-613

  Jeong, Cheol Ho ^a   Ih, Jeong Guon ^a   Rindel, Jens H ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Approximate reflection coefficient; Medium frequencies; Phased beam tracing; Room acoustic simulation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; IMPULSE RESPONSE;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; APPROXIMATE REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; PHASED BEAM TRACING; ROOM ACOUSTIC SIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

EID: 44049098767     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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