Energy- and wave-based beam-tracing prediction of room-acoustical parameters using different boundary conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1450-1461

  Yousefzadeh, Behrooz ^a   Hodgson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES; ACOUSTICAL RESPONSE; BEAM-TRACING MODELS; BIOT THEORY; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; MULTIPLE LAYERS; PHASE CHANGE ON REFLECTION; PHASE CHANGES; POROELASTIC; RAPID SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; REVERBERATION TIME; SOLID MATERIAL; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; THREE PARAMETERS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REVERBERATION; SURFACES;

SURFACE REACTIONS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOTION; NOISE; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NOISE; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84866268238     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4739461     Document Type: Article

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