Computational Simulation in Architectural and Environmental Acoustics

Download or read book Computational Simulation in Architectural and Environmental Acoustics written by Tetsuya Sakuma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews a variety of methods for wave-based acoustic simulation and recent applications to architectural and environmental acoustic problems. Following an introduction providing an overview of computational simulation of sound environment, the book is in two parts: four chapters on methods and four chapters on applications. The first part explains the fundamentals and advanced techniques for three popular methods, namely, the finite-difference time-domain method, the finite element method, and the boundary element method, as well as alternative time-domain methods. The second part demonstrates various applications to room acoustics simulation, noise propagation simulation, acoustic property simulation for building components, and auralization. This book is a valuable reference that covers the state of the art in computational simulation for architectural and environmental acoustics.