Investigation of acoustically coupled enclosures using a diffusion-equation model

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1187-1198

  Xiang, Ning ^a   Jing, Yun ^a   Bockman, Alexander C ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL MEASUREMENTS; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COUPLED-ROOM; DIFFUSION MODEL; DIFFUSION-EQUATION MODELS; DIRECTION CHANGE; ENERGY DECAY; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY FLUX MODELING; EXPERIENCE FEEDBACK; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION; NUMERICAL MODELING; PERFORMING ARTS; SCALE-MODEL; SOUND FIELDS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DIFFUSION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DIFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND PRESSURE;

EID: 70349142271     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3168507     Document Type: Article

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