A model of sound scattering by atmospheric turbulence for use in noise mapping calculations

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 810-815

  Forssén, Jens ^a   Hornikx, Maarten ^a,b   Botteldooren, Dick ^c   Wei, Weigang ^c   Van Renterghem, Timothy ^c   Ögren, Mikael ^d  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d SWEDISH NATIONAL ROAD AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; LARGE DATASET; MAPPING; NOISE ABATEMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; SHIELDING;

EFFECTIVE HEIGHT; ENGINEERING MODELING; GROUND REFLECTION; HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; RECEIVER POSITIONS; SINGLE POINT SOURCE; SINGLE SCATTERING; SOUND PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84907060527     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: 18619959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918760     Document Type: Article

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