The Harmonoise sound propagation model

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-74

  Salomons, Erik ^a   Van Maercke, Dirk ^b   Defrance, Jérôme ^b   De Roo, Foort ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b CSTB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC ELEMENTS; COMPUTER CODES; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; FUTURE METHODS; HARMONOISE MODELS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SOUND PROPAGATION; WIND PROFILES;

NOISE POLLUTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 78651492951     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918387     Document Type: Article

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