A scenario study for improving cost-effectiveness in acoustic time-reversal source relocation in an urban environment

Journal of Computational Acoustics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Lanbo ^a,b   Xie, Hao ^a   Albert, Donald G ^b   Eller, Paul R ^c   Cheng, Jing Ru C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); receiver array; scenarios; time reversal (TR); urban acoustic propagation; urban acoustic source relocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862580430     PISSN: 0218396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218396X12400036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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