
Acentech wins AN Best of Practice Award
Acentech is honored to be awarded an Editors’ Pick in The Architect’s Newspaper 2025 Best of Practice Awards in the Acoustic Consultant/Engineer category! This recognition highlights…
ABSTRACT
For the purpose of numerical efficiency in room acoustic modeling, the physical theory of diffraction (PTD) is applied to approximate solutions of a finite-sized, rigid rectangular plate. The application of the PTD enables sound diffraction contributions from the two edge pairs of the rigid plate to be predicted separately while ignoring the edge waves around the corners in far-field. This paper discusses numerical implementations of the theoretical predictions to show the efficiency of the application of the PTD in finite-sized objects. The numerical results implemented will also be compared with preliminary experimental results carried out using an acoustical goniometer.