Excess attenuation for sound propagation over an urban canyon

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 510-517

  Schiff, Martin ^a   Hornikx, Maarten ^a   Forssén, Jens ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Equivalent sources method; Outdoor sound propagation; Parabolic equation method; Traffic noise; Urban canyon

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT SOURCE; OUTDOOR SOUND PROPAGATION; PARABOLIC EQUATION METHOD; TRAFFIC NOISE; URBAN CANYONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MODELS; NOISE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 77249139134     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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