The use of tessellation in three-dimensional parabolic equation modeling

Journal of Computational Acoustics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-239

  Austin, Melanie E ^a   Chapman, N Ross ^b  

^a JASCO Applied Sciences   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

computation grid; efficiency; parabolic equation; Sound propagation modeling; tessellation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052973891     PISSN: 0218396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218396X11004328     Document Type: Article

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