Computer simulations in room acoustics: Concepts and uncertainties

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1203-1213

  Vorländer, Michael ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION AND SCATTERINGS; FINITE DIFFERENCES IN TIME DOMAINS; GEOMETRICAL ACOUSTICS; JUST-NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE; PROPAGATION EFFECT; REVERBERATION ROOMS; ROOM ACOUSTIC DESIGN; ROOM ACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; REVERBERATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNCERTAINTY; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY; VIBRATION;

EID: 84874835704     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4788978     Document Type: Review

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