Auralization of wind turbine noise: Propagation filtering and vegetation noise synthesis

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-24

  Heutschi, Kurt ^a   Pieren, Reto ^a   Müller, Menno ^a   Manyoky, Madeleine ^b   Wissen Hayek, Ulrike ^b   Eggenschwiler, Kurt ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATED SOURCES; EXTENDED SOURCES; LEVEL FLUCTUATION; NOISE SYNTHESIS; POWER DENSITY SPECTRUM; SOUND POWER SPECTRUM; SOURCE EXTENSION; WIND TURBINE NOISE;

RANDOM PROCESSES; WIND; WIND TURBINES;

VEGETATION;

EID: 84892607143     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918682     Document Type: Article

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