Road traffic noise reduction by vegetated low noise barriers in urban streets

Proceedings - European Conference on Noise Control

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 944-948

  Van Renterghem, Timothy ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a   Hornikx, Maarten ^b   Jean, Philippe ^c   Defrance, Jerome ^c   Smyrnova, Yuliya ^d   Kang, Jian ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c CSTB   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING FACADES; ENERGY-BASED METHODS; FDTD (FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN); LOW NOISE; NOISE BARRIERS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RADIOSITY; RAY MODELS; ROAD TRAFFIC; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; STREET CANYON; TIME DOMAIN; URBAN STREETS; VEHICLE SPEED;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NOISE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865974100     PISSN: 22265147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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