Application of the Beilis-Tappert parabolic equation method to sound propagation over irregular terrain

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1039-1046

  Parakkal, Santosh ^a,b   Gilbert, Kenneth E ^a   Di, Xiao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER; FOURIER ALGORITHMS; IMPEDANCE APPROXIMATION; IMPEDANCE CONDITIONS; IRREGULAR TERRAIN; LIMITING FACTORS; MULTIPLICATIVE FACTORS; NUMERICAL ACCURACY; PARABOLIC EQUATION ALGORITHMS; PARABOLIC EQUATION METHOD; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; PHASE SCREEN; PROPAGATION PREDICTION; SOUND PROPAGATION; SURFACE VARIATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROJECTION SCREENS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84857433913     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3676693     Document Type: Article

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