Calculation of reflections in an urban environment

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 644-652

  Heutschi, Kurt ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION SCHEME; DIFFUSE REFLECTION; DISCRETIZATIONS; ENERGY EXCHANGES; FDTD SIMULATIONS; GRID CELLS; HELMHOLTZ; HIGH FREQUENCY; ITERATIVE PROCESS; KIRCHHOFF; LOW FREQUENCY; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RAILWAY NOISE; SCALE MODEL EXPERIMENT; SOUND PRESSURES; SOUND PROPAGATION; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; STEP-BY-STEP; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NOISE POLLUTION;

REFLECTION;

EID: 68849131006     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918193     Document Type: Article

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