[en] In this paper, a modification of the diffusion model for room acoustics is proposed to account for sound transmission between two rooms, a source room and an adjacent room, which are coupled through a partition wall. A system of two diffusion equations, one for each room, together with a set of two boundary conditions, one for the partition wall and one for the other walls of a room, is
obtained and numerically solved. The modified diffusion model is validated by numerical comparisons with the statistical theory for several coupled-room configurations by varying the coupling area surface, the absorption coefficient of each room, and the volume of the adjacent room. An experimental comparison is also carried out for two coupled classrooms. The modified diffusion model results agree very well with both the statistical theory and the experimental data. The diffusion model can then be used as an alternative to the statistical theory, especially when the statistical theory is not applicable, that is, when the reverberant sound field is not diffuse. Moreover, the diffusion model allows the prediction of the spatial distribution of sound energy within each coupled room, while the statistical theory gives only one sound level for each room.
Disciplines :
Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Billon, Alexis ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Electroacoustique, acoustique appliquée et éclairage
Foy, Cédric
Picaut, Judicaël
Valeau, Vincent
Sakout, Anas
Language :
English
Title :
Modeling the sound transmission coupled through partition walls using a diffusion model
Publication date :
2008
Journal title :
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
ISSN :
0001-4966
eISSN :
1520-8524
Publisher :
American Institute of Physics, Melville, United States - New York
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