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Transient Room Acoustics Using a 2.5 Dimensional Approach

Cavity modes of a finite acoustic domain with rigid boundaries can be used to compute the transient response for a point source excitation. Previous work, considering steady state analysis, showed that for a room of constant height the 3-D modes can be computed very rapidly by computing the 2-D cross section modes. An alternative to a transient modal approach is suggested, using a trigonometric expansion of the pressure through the height. Both methods are much faster than 3-D FEM but the trigonometric series approach is more easily able to include realistic damping. The accuracy of approximating an “almost constant height” room to be constant height is investigated by example.

Author: Macey, Patrick
Affiliation: Pacsys Ltd., Nottingham, UK
AES Convention:133 (October 2012) Paper Number:8732 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Emerging Audio Technologies

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