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SONORUS booklet
The SONORUS project has finalized and summaries, views, experiences and research in the field of urban sound planning can be found in this booklet.
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ITN project granted!
The proposal ‘Acoutect: A sound fundament for our future buildings’ has been granted by the European Commission as a H2020 Marie-Curie ITN project! I will be the coordinator of this 3.9M€ project and am proud to collaborate with the following partners: Aalto, KU Leuven, Liverpool and Chalmers (Universities), Materialize, Level Acoustics and Vibration, Matelys, Siemens, Moelven,…
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Ten questions paper
My ten questions paper on computational urban acoustics is in press in the journal Building and Environment (it can be found here). The paper contains ten questions and answers related to the need for computational acoustics methods, the relevance of including various urban propagation effects in computational modelling, and to the preferable computational methods and…
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Summerschool
Maarten has lectured on time-domain methods in acoustics in the summerschool organized by the European Acoustics Association. Maarten’s lecture slides are available here!
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Kick-off STW project
At Wednesday May 18, the kick-off of our STW project ‘Tools to Tackle Environmental Health project’ took place in Eindhoven. Our PhD students presented their results and the user committee was represented by TNO, the municipality of Eindhoven and the Harbour of Rotterdam. The project description can be found here.
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Summer School in Porto
At June 11 and 12, the European summer school on Acoustics for (PhD) students will be held in Porto. Many fascinating topics on acoustics will be lectured, and my part relates to numerical methods in acoustics. Please register here.
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Young Professionals Grant for Chang Liu
Chang Liu has been awarded a Young Professionals Grant for the Inter-Noise conference in Hamburg (August 2016), where she will present the paper titled ‘Impedance deduction for vegetated roof surfaces: multiple geometry strategy’. The grant is issued by the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE). This is the second conference award in a row for…
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New PhD project started!
Sai Charan Trikootam has started today as a PhD student in our Building Acoustics chair on project titled: Numerical modelling of sound propagation in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). The project aims to develop a numerical method for 3D sound propagation in the atmospheric boundary layer involving complex meteorological conditions. The method can be used…
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New paper open openPSTD software
The Elsevier journal Computer Physics Communications, has accepted the paper titled: “openPSTD: the open source pseudospectral time-domain method for acoustic propagation”, by Maarten Hornikx, Thomas Krijnen and Louis van Harten. The paper presents the implementation of our open source software openPSTD (www.openPSTD.org) for accurate computation of sound propagation in the built environment. The software will be…
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New paper on wind effects on sound propagation from road traffic
The journal of the European Acoustics Association (EAA), Acta Acustica United with Acoustics, has just accepted the paper titled: “Numerical investigation of the effect of crosswind on sound propagation outdoors”, by Maarten Hornikx and Timothy van Renterghem. In the paper, we show that the effect of wind on noise propagation from a line source (like…
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