Synopses & Reviews
This book presents the theory of room acoustical fields and revises the Mirror Source Methods for practical computational use, emphasizing the wave character of acoustical fields.
Synopsis
Room Acoustical Fields explores sound field theory with an emphasis on the wave character of acoustical fields.
Table of Contents
Sound Sources.- Monopole line source or point source.- Mirror sources.- Modified mirror sources.- Hard-soft Superposition.- Cubic room.- Zone Solution in a cube.- Field in a rectangular reverberant room.- Flat rooms.- Wedge rooms.- Vault rooms.- Cupola shaped rooms.- mirror source methods, rules.- Geometrical subtasks and admittances.- Mirror source fields in concave rooms.- Sound radiation of a cooling tower.- Reverberation with mirror sources.- Mirror sources in convex rooms.- Modified mirror procedure.- Mirror sources and corner sources.- Mirror sources combined with the principle of symmetry-superposition (PSS).- Mirror Sources and wedge space field.- Corner scattering from literature.- Two-dimensional rooms.- Concluding remarks.