Volumetric diffusers: Pseudorandom cylinder arrays on a periodic lattice

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2847-2856

  Hughes, Richard J ^a   Angus, Jamie A S ^a   Cox, Trevor J ^a   Umnova, Olga ^a   Gehring, Gillian A ^b   Pogson, Mark ^b   Whittaker, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERIODIC AUTOCORRELATIONS; CYLINDER ARRAYS; HIGH FREQUENCY; LATTICE SPACING; LOW FREQUENCY POWER; OBJECT SIZE; OPERATIONAL BANDWIDTH; PERIODIC LATTICES; PSEUDO RANDOM; SONIC CRYSTALS; SPARSE ARRAYS; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; SURFACE-BASED;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; SCATTERING; SURFACE TREATMENT;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MUSIC; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSIC; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 78649573897     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3493455     Document Type: Article

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