Fast multipole boundary element method to calculate head-related transfer functions for a wide frequency range

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1280-1290

  Kreuzer, Wolfgang ^a   Majdak, Piotr ^a   Chen, Zhengsheng ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; FAST MULTIPOLE; FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; MESH SIZE; NON-CONTACT; SPATIAL SOUND; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR AURICLE; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHOULDER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70349160807     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3177264     Document Type: Article

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