Sound field reproduction as an equivalent acoustical scattering problem

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3721-3729

  Fazi, Filippo Maria ^a   Nelson, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING PROBLEM; ACOUSTICAL SCATTERING; CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; INTEGRAL OPERATORS; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; SOUND FIELD REPRODUCTION; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; SCATTERING;

SOUND REPRODUCTION;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOUND; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRESSURE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 84887487011     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4824343     Document Type: Article

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