Long room with specular reflection and uniform absorption

What is tested?

Comparison between SPPS/TCR simulations and results from the NORMAL code described in [Yang, 2000].

[yang, 2000] L.N. YANG, B.M. SHIELD, DEVELOPMENT OF A RAY TRACING COMPUTER MODEL FOR THE PREDICTION OF THE SOUND FIELD IN LONG ENCLOSURES, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume 229, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 133-146, ISSN 0022-460X, dx.doi.org/10.1006/jsvi.1999.2477.

Description

Academic case: Long room (8m x 100m x 9m) with specular reflection (no diffusion) and 10% uniform surface absorption, with a single source and 6 punctual receivers.

Reference

All elements of this simulation are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Reference

Description

Academic case: Long room (8m x 100m x 9m) with specular reflection (no diffusion) and 10% uniform surface absorption, with a single source and 6 punctual receivers.

All elements of this simulation are licensed under Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

What is tested?

Comparison between SPPS/TCR simulations and results from the NORMAL code described in [Yang, 2000].

[Yang, 2000] L.N. Yang, B.M. Shield, Development of ray tracing computer model for the prediction of the sound field in long enclosures, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Volume 229, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 133-146, ISSN 0022-460X, dx.doi.org/10.1006/jsvi.1999.2477.

Reference

CAUTION - The following results present comparisons between numerical simulations carried out with I-Simpa and 'reference' data available in the scientific literature.

It is difficult to prejudge the concept of 'reference'. The deviation between the simulations and the reference data that can be observed do not necessarily call into question the corresponding simulations but can also be associated with other sources of deviation (modeling assumptions, numerical instabilities, experimental uncertainties, etc.).
Note also that these comparaisons can also show the limitations of some numerical codes.

Results

Sound pressure level (SPL)

This figure shows a very good agreement between the SPPS code results and the reference data, for the sound pressure level. In addition, and as expected, one can observe the decrease of the sound level in the corridor, which can not be predicted using the classical theory of reverberation (as calculated with the TCR code).

Reverberation time (RT30)

The SPPS code and the reference data show a similar behavior for the reverberation time (RT30), i.e. an increase of the RT30 with the distance from source (excepted for the last location, closed to the end wall of the corridor). However, the SPPS code slightly overestimate the RT30 (around 10%) in comparison with the NORMAL code.

Early decay time (EDT)

Here again, the SPPS code and the reference data show a similar behavior for the early decay time (EDT), i.e. an increase of the RT30 with the distance from source, but, unlike the previous comparison for the RT30, the EDT values are this time underestimated (around 4%-17%).

Calculation parameters

Reference

Parameters	Value
Active calculation of Atmospheric absorption	NO
Active calculation of diffusion by fitting objects	NO
Active calculation of direct field only	NO
Active calculation of transmission	NO
Calculation method	Energetic
Limit value of the particle extinction	5.0
Number of sound particles per source	5 000 000
Number of sound particles per source (display)
Random initialization number
Receiver radius	0.31
Simulation length (s)	2.000
Time step (s)	0.002

Reference

Parameters	Value
Active calculation of Atmospheric absorption	NO