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Room Acoustics Using a 2.5 Dimensional Approach with Damping Included

Authors: Macey, Patrick

AES Convention 131 · Paper 8460 · October 2011

Abstract

Cavity modes of a finite bounded region with rigid boundaries can be used to compute the steady state harmonic response for point source excitation. In cuboid domains this is straightforward. In general regions, determining a set of orthonormal modes is more difficult. Previous work showed that for rooms of constant height, 3D modes can be computed from the cross section modes, and this used for a fast solution. This approach used modal damping. More realistic damping associated with wall areas could be included using a damped eigenvalue calculation of the cross section modes. This is restrictive on damping formulations. An alternative non-modal approach, using a trigonometric expansion through the height is proposed. This is still faster than 3D FEM.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 131
AES Convention
131
Paper number
8460
Publication date
October 6, 2011
Session subject
Room Acoustics
Affiliation
PACSYS Limited, Nottingham, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper