Experimental and numerical study on the propagation of impulsive sound around buildings

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1029-1044

  Remillieux, Marcel C ^a   Corcoran, Joseph M ^a   Haac, T Ryan ^a   Burdisso, Ricardo A ^a   Svensson, U Peter ^b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biot Tolstoy Medwin method; Boundary element method; Geometrical acoustics; Impulsive sound; Isolated buildings; Multiple buildings; Outdoor sound propagation; Sonic boom

Indexed keywords

BIOT-TOLSTOY-MEDWIN METHOD; GEOMETRICAL ACOUSTICS; IMPULSIVE SOUNDS; ISOLATED BUILDINGS; MULTIPLE BUILDINGS; OUTDOOR SOUND PROPAGATION; SONIC BOOMS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BUILDINGS; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHAPED CHARGES; SHOCK WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84862020115     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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