WaveCloud: An open source room acoustics simulator using the finite difference time domain method

Proceedings of Forum Acusticum

Volumn 2014-January, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sheaffer, Jonathan ^a   Fazenda, Bruno ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTATION TIME; DIRECTIONAL SOURCES; DISCRETE TIME-DOMAIN; OPEN-SOURCE MODEL; ROOM GEOMETRIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUNDS; TIME VARIABILITY; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84953285337     PISSN: 22213767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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