A new acoustic measurement signal that is a hybrid signal of time-stretched pulse TSP , or lin-TSP, and logarithmic TSP log-TSP is proposed. The signal, referred to as warped-TSP Morise et al., IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, A, J89-A 1 , 7–14 2006 , has a single parameter to adjust for better measurements in accordance with ambient noise conditions. It also provides a means to eliminate harmonic di...

The Audio Arts and Acoustics department at Columbia College in Chicago acquired a new building in 2003. The facility, a former bank, contained an old steel and concrete vault that was converted to a reverberation chamber. The acoustic properties of the space, including reverberation time, modal density, and early reflection maps were analyzed and compared to a computer model. Reflectograms were...

Virtual acoustics and auralizations have been previously used to study the perceptual properties of concert hall acoustics in a descriptive profiling framework. The results have indicated that the apparent auditory distance to the orchestra might play a crucial role in enhancing the listening experience and the appraisal of hall acoustics. However, it is unknown how the acoustics of the hall in...

Cancer is one of the diseases which cause the highest death rate in XXI century. However, through years techniques and equipment used to fight with this disease improved there are still many opportunity to get better results. Nowadays, the attention is focused on precise cancerous cells place estimation. It is important for effective cancer treatment, but also it allows diminishing the unwanted...

In many areas in the physical sciences, the propagation of waves in complex media plays a central role. Acoustics, applied mathematics, elastics, environmental sciences, mechanics, marine sciences, medical sciences, microwaves, and seismology are just a few examples, and of course nanophotonics [6, 429, 448, 449]. Here, complex media are understood to exhibit a strongly inhomogeneous spatial st...

R. BANHAM AND G. VALSECCHI Media Lario S.r.l.i. Lecco, Italy L. LUCCI, G. PELOSI AND S. SELLERI University of Florence Florence, Italy V. NATALE AND R. NESTI IRA–INAF–Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory Florence, Italy G. TOFANI IRA–INAF–Institute of Radio Astronomy Bologna, Italy The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental European organization for astronomical research, coor...

In this paper, a new formulation for acoustics coupled with linear elasticity is presented. The primary objective of the work is to develop a three dimensional hp adaptive finite element method code destinated for modeling of acoustics of human head. The code will have numerous applications e.g. in designing hearing protection devices for individuals working in high noise environments. The pres...