Fast computations of outdoor sound scattering using graphical processing hardware

41st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2012, INTER-NOISE 2012

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 7214-7225

  Albert, Donald G ^a   Liu, Lanbo ^b   Eller, Paul R ^c   Cheng, Jing Ru C ^c  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; MULTIPLE BUILDINGS; PARALLEL PROCESSOR; PROCESSING HARDWARE; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; SOUND PROPAGATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HARDWARE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84883570357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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