Outdoor sound propagation: Recent modeling developments and applications to noise control

40th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2011, INTER-NOISE 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 30-42

  Wilson, D Keith ^a  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteorological effects; Numerical methods; Outdoor sound propagation; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; HEURISTIC MODEL; INPUT DATAS; MAN-MADE STRUCTURES; METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS; OUTDOOR NOISE; OUTDOOR SOUND PROPAGATION; PREDICTIVE METHODS; PREDICTIVE PROCESS; SOIL PROPERTY; STANDARDIZED PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC NATURE; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; EXHIBITIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; SAMPLING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84867954910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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