Numerical simulations of the sound propagation in non rectilinear streets

8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 31, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages

  Billon, Alexis ^a   Picaut, Judicaël ^b   Valeau, Vincent ^c   Sakout, Anas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Laboratoire Centrale de Ponts et Chausées   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL ENERGY; ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; DIFFUSION MODEL; DIFFUSION PROCESS; FINITE ELEMENT; HIGH FREQUENCY; PROPAGATION OF SOUNDS; SCALE MODEL EXPERIMENT; SOUND PROPAGATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; URBAN CANYONS;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; DIFFUSION; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84864646821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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