Room acoustics simulation using 3-D compact explicit FDTD schemes

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-46

  Kowalczyk, Konrad ^a,b   Van Walstijn, Maarten ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic propagation; acoustic reflection; acoustic signal processing; architectural acoustics; finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BOUNDARY MODELS; D-COMPACT; DIGITAL WAVEGUIDE MESH; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; ROOM ACOUSTICS; STAGGERED GRID; SURFACE THEORY; WALL IMPEDANCE; WIDE-BAND;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL FILTERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 77957734480     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2045179     Document Type: Article

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