Sound field modeling in a street canyon with partially diffusely reflecting boundaries by the transport theory

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2969-2983

  Le Pollès, Thierry ^a,c   Picaut, Judicaël ^a   Bérengier, Michel ^a   Bardos, Claude ^b  

^a Laboratoire Centrale de Ponts et Chausées   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; URBAN PLANNING;

REVERBERATION TIME; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT THEORY;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; THEORY;

EID: 9644307910     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1791720     Document Type: Article

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