Acoustic pulse propagation in an urban environment using a three-dimensional numerical simulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3231-3242

  Mehra, Ravish ^a   Raghuvanshi, Nikunj ^b   Chandak, Anish ^a   Albert, Donald G ^c   Keith Wilson, D ^c   Manocha, Dinesh ^a  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; TWO DIMENSIONAL; URBAN PLANNING;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RECTANGULAR DECOMPOSITION; SOUND PROPAGATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLUTIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84903191857     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4874495     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. J. Kang, Urban Sound Environment (Taylor & Francis, New York, 2006), 304 pp.
2. D. May and N. Osman, "Highway noise barriers: New shapes," J. Sound Vib. 71, 73-101 (1980). 10.1016/0022-460X(80)90410-1
3. D. Hothersall, S. Chandler-Wilde, and M. Hajmirzae, "Efficiency of single noise barriers," J. Sound Vib. 146, 303-322 (1991). 10.1016/0022-460X(91)90765-C
4. A. Ledeczi, P. Volgyesi, M. Maroti, G. Simon, G. Balogh, A. Nadas, B. Kusy, S. Dora, and G. Pap, "Multiple simultaneous acoustic source localization in urban terrain," in Fourth International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (2005), pp. 491-496.
5. D. G. Albert, L. Liu, and M. L. Moran, "Time reversal processing for source location in an urban environment," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 616-619 (2005). 10.1121/1.1925849
6. F. M. Wiener, C. I. Malme, and C. M. Gogos, "Sound propagation in urban areas," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 37, 738-747 (1965). 10.1121/1.1909409
7. R. Bullen and F. Fricke, "Sound propagation in a street," J. Sound Vib. 46, 33-42 (1976). 10.1016/0022-460X(76)90814-2
8. K. K. Iu and K. M. Li, "The propagation of sound in narrow street canyons," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 537-550 (2002). 10.1121/1.1492821
9. K. Heutschi, "A simple method to evaluate the increase of traffic noise emission level due to buildings, for a long straight street," Appl. Acoust. 44, 259-274 (1995). 10.1016/0003-682X(94)00027-S
10. J. Kang, "Sound propagation in interconnected urban streets: A parametric study," Environ. Plann. B 28, 281-294 (2001). 10.1068/b2680
11. L. Liu and D. G. Albert, "Acoustic pulse propagation near a right-angle wall," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 2073-2083 (2006). 10.1121/1.2180530
12. W. C. K. Alberts, I. I. J. M. Noble, and M. A. Coleman, "Sound propagation in the vicinity of an isolated building: An experimental investigation," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 733-742 (2008). 10.1121/1.2945151
13. D. G. Albert and L. Liu, "The effect of buildings on acoustic pulse propagation in an urban environment," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1335-1346 (2010). 10.1121/1.3277245
14. N. Raghuvanshi, R. Narain, and M. C. Lin, "Efficient and accurate sound propagation using adaptive rectangular decomposition," IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics 15, 789-801 (2009). 10.1109/TVCG.2009.28
15. A. Pierce, Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications (Acoustical Society of America, New York, 1989), 678 pp.
16. K. P. Lee and H. G. Davies, "Nomogram for estimating noise propagation in urban areas," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 57, 1477-1480 (1975). 10.1121/1.380587
17. A. Garcia and L. Faus, "Statistical analysis of noise levels in urban areas," Appl. Acoust. 34, 227-247 (1991). 10.1016/0003-682X(91)90007- 2
18. J. Picaut, T. Le Pollès, P. L'Hermite, and V. Gary, "Experimental study of sound propagation in a street," Appl. Acoust. 66, 149-173 (2005). 10.1016/j.apacoust.2004.07.014
19. J. Kang, "Sound propagation in street canyons: Comparison between diffusely and geometrically reflecting boundaries," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 1394-1404 (2000). 10.1121/1.428580
20. D. Botteldooren, "Acoustical finite-difference time-domain simulation in a quasi-Cartesian grid," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 2313-2319 (1994). 10.1121/1.409866
21. L. L. Thompson, "A review of finite-element methods for time-harmonic acoustics," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 1315-1330 (2006). 10.1121/1.2164987
22. C. A. Brebbia, Boundary Element Methods in Acoustics (Springer, New York, 1991), 312 pp.
23. M. Ochmann, "The source simulation technique for acoustic radiation problems," Acta Acust. Acust. 81, 512-527 (1995).
24. J. P. Boyd, Chebyshev and Fourier Spectral Methods (Dover Publications, New York, 2001), 668 pp.
25. E. Premat and Y. Gabillet, "A new boundary-element method for predicting outdoor sound propagation and application to the case of a sound barrier in the presence of downward refraction," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 108, 2775-2783 (2000). 10.1121/1.1290512
26. S. Chandler-Wilde, "The boundary element method in outdoor noise propagation," Proc. Inst. Acoust. 90, 27-50 (1997).
27. M. Ogren and W. Kropp, "Road traffic noise propagation between two dimensional city canyons using an equivalent sources approach," Acta Acust. Acust. 90, 293-300 (2004).
28. T. Van Renterghem, E. Salomons, and D. Botteldooren, "Parameter study of sound propagation between city canyons with a coupled FDTD-PE model," Appl. Acoust. 67, 487-510 (2006). 10.1016/j.apacoust.2005.09.006
29. N. C. Ovenden, S. R. Shaffer, and H. J. S. Fernando, "Impact of meteorological conditions on noise propagation from freeway corridors," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, 25-35 (2009). 10.1121/1.3129125
30. M. Hornikx, R. Waxler, and J. Forssen, "The extended Fourier pseudospectral timedomain method for atmospheric sound propagation," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 1632-1646 (2010). 10.1121/1.3474234
31. S. A. Ketcham, D. K. Wilson, M. W. Parker, and H. H. Cudney, "Signal fading curves from computed urban acoustic wave fields," Proc. SPIE 6963, 1-8 (2008). 10.1117/12.777166
32. T. L. Pollès, J. Picaut, M. Bérengier, and C. Bardos, "Sound field modeling in a street canyon with partially diffusely reflecting boundaries by the transport theory," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 2969-2983 (2004). 10.1121/1.1791720
33. R. Mehra, N. Raghuvanshi, L. Savioja, M. C. Lin, and D. Manocha, "An efficient gpu-based time domain solver for the acoustic wave equation," Appl. Acoust. 73, 83-94 (2012). 10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.05.012
34. D. K. Wilson, "Outdoor sound propagation: Recent modeling developments and applications to noise control," in Internoise 2011 Proceedings, K-4 (2011), paper 439998.
35. N. Raghuvanshi, R. Mehra, D. Manocha, and M. C. Lin, "Adaptive rectangular decomposition: A spectral, domain-decomposition approach for fast wave solution on complex scenes," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132, 1890-1890 (2012). 10.1121/1.4754930
36. A. Taflove and S. C. Hagness, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Artech House Publishers, London, UK), 1006 pp.
37. T. Hasegawa, M. Ochi, and K. Matsuzawa, "Acoustic radiation pressure on a rigid sphere in a spherical wave field," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 67, 770-773 (1980). 10.1121/1.383950
38. U. P. Svensson, R. I. Fred, and J. Vanderkooy, "An analytic secondary source model of edge diffraction impulse responses," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2331-2344 (1999). 10.1121/1.428071
39. H. Medwin, E. Childs, and G. M. Jebsen, "Impulse studies of double diffraction: A discrete Huygens interpretation," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72, 1005-1013 (1982). 10.1121/1.388231
40. H. Sakoe and S. Chiba, "Dynamic programming algorithm optimization for spoken word recognition," IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Processing 26, 43-49 (1978). 10.1109/TASSP.1978.1163055
41. C. Masterson, G. Kearney, and F. Boland, "Acoustic impulse response interpolation for multichannel systems using dynamic time warping," in 35th AES Conference on Audio for Games (Audio Engineering Society, New York, 2002), p. 34.
42. J. Aach and G. M. Church, "Aligning gene expression time series with time warping algorithms," Bioinformatics 17, 495-508 (2001). 10.1093/bioinformatics/17.6.495
43. E. Caiani, A. Porta, G. Baselli, M. Turiel, S. Muzzupappa, F. Pieruzzi, C. Crema, A. Malliani, and S. Cerutti, "Warped-average template technique to track on a cycleby-cycle basis the cardiac filling phases on left ventricular volume," in Computers in Cardiology (IEEE, New York, 1998), pp. 73-76.