[en] In this paper, a modification to the room-acoustic diffusion model is proposed to take different amounts of wall scattering into account. An extensive set of numerical simulations using a cone-tracing software has first been carried out, in order to highlight the impact of the scattering coefficient on the diffusion process in rooms, in terms of sound pressure levels. An iterative method is then proposed to identify, for a given value of the wall’s scattering coefficient, the diffusion constant that allows the stationary sound field to be governed by a diffusion process, regardless of the room’s geometry. Using this method, an empirical law can be proposed between the diffusion constant and the scattering coefficient. The empirical diffusion model is then compared to scale model experiments, as well as to other models from the literature, with a satisfactory agreement for the sound pressure level. However, the empirical diffusion model fails to predict the sound decay for rooms with perfectly specularly reflecting surfaces, due to the inherent concept of a diffusion process.
Disciplines :
Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Foy, Cédric
Valeau, Vincent
Billon, Alexis ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Electroacoustique, acoustique appliquée et éclairage
Sakout, Anas
Language :
English
Title :
An empirical diffusion model for acoustic prediction in rooms with mixted specular and diffuse refections
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