The effect of buildings on acoustic pulse propagation in an urban environment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1335-1346

  Albert, Donald G ^a   Liu, Lanbo ^b  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PULSE; ACOUSTIC SOURCES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FDTD METHOD; FIRST ARRIVAL; HUMAN LISTENERS; IN-LINE; NONLINE OF SIGHT; POSITIVE PRESSURE; RAY PATHS; SENSOR LOCATION; SINGLE PULSE; SOURCE LOCATION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM CHARACTERISTICS;

ACOUSTICS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; LOCATION; LOW PASS FILTERS; SENSORS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CITY; CITY PLANNING; HUMAN; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; TRAFFIC NOISE; WIND;

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; HUMANS; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

EID: 77950447152     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3277245     Document Type: Article

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