Sound absorption of porous substrates covered by foliage: Experimental results and numerical predictions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4599-4609

  Ding, Lei ^a,b   Van Renterghem, Timothy ^a,b   Botteldooren, Dick ^a,b   Horoshenkov, Kirill ^b   Khan, Amir ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING PROPERTIES; ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; ACOUSTIC ABSORPTION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOW-FREQUENCY ABSORPTION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FORECASTING; PLANTS (BOTANY); VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

SUBSTRATES;

ABSORPTION; BUILDING MATERIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PLANT LEAF; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION, PHYSICOCHEMICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PLANT LEAVES; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84890197491     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4824830     Document Type: Article

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