Wind turbine noise propagation: Comparison of measurements and predictions by a method based on geometrical ray theory

Noise Control Engineering Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-22

  Plovsing, Birger ^a   Sndergaard, Bo ^a  

^a DELTA Danish Electronics Light & Acoustics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS ERROR; COMPARISON WITH MEASUREMENTS; HEURISTIC SOLUTIONS; NOISE LEVELS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; PROPAGATION MODELS; RAY THEORY; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

LOUDSPEAKERS; MODELS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79952948995     PISSN: 07362501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3397/1.3548871     Document Type: Article

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