A dipole loudspeaker with a balanced directivity pattern

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2749-2757

  Mellow, Tim ^a   Kärkkäinen, Leo ^b  

^a DSP Software Engineering Group   (United Kingdom)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; CONCENTRIC RINGS; DIPOLE SOURCES; DIRECTIVITY; DIRECTIVITY PATTERN; FINITE NUMBER; LIMITING CASE; OSCILLATING SPHERE; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PLANAR SOURCES; POINT SOURCES; PORTABLE DEVICE; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE VELOCITY; UNIFORM PRESSURE; VARIABLE PHASE;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

SPHERES;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 78649592548     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3493446     Document Type: Article

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