<P>THIS BOOK REVIEWS A VARIETY OF METHODS FOR WAVE-BASED ACOUSTIC SIMULATION AND RECENT APPLICATIONS TO ARCHITECTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACOUSTIC PROBLEMS.</P><P>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.</P><P>THIS BOOK IS A VALUABLE REFERENCE THAT COVERS THE STATE OF THE ART IN COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION FOR ARCHITECTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACOUSTICS.</P>
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.