Modelling of sound propagation to three-dimensional urban courtyards using the extended fourier PSTD method

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 665-676

  Hornikx, Maarten ^a   Forssén, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fourier pseudospectral method; Incoherent line source; Quiet urban areas; Urban noise

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; DISTANT SOURCE; FOURIER; FOURIER PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; HIGHER NOISE LEVELS; LINE SOURCES; MITIGATION MEASURES; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MITIGATION; PSEUDOSPECTRAL TIME DOMAIN METHODS; QUIET URBAN AREAS; ROAD TRAFFIC; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUND PROPAGATION; STREET CANYON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN NOISE; URBAN STREET CANYON;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC NOISE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NOISE POLLUTION; ROADSIDES; ROOFS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79956150502     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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