Approximate theory of reverberation in rectangular rooms with specular and diffuse reflections

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2325-2336

  Sakuma, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ABSORPTION DISTRIBUTION; DIFFUSE FIELDS; DIFFUSE REFLECTION; ENERGY DECAY; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; IMAGE SOURCE; IMAGE-SOURCE METHOD; NORMAL MODES; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; TOTAL ENERGY;

ASPECT RATIO; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

REVERBERATION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; INSTRUMENTATION; MOTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VIBRATION;

EID: 84867367031     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4747001     Document Type: Article

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