title: Including scattering within the room acoustics diffusion model: An analytical approach.
abstract: Over the last 20 years, a statistical acoustic model has been developed to predict the reverberant sound field in buildings. This model is based on the assumption that the propagation of the reverberant sound field follows a transport process and, as an approximation, a diffusion process that can be easily solved numerically. This model, initially designed and validated for rooms with purely diffuse reflections, is extended in the present study to mixed reflections, with a proportion of specular and diffuse reflections defined by a scattering coefficient. The proposed mathematical developments lead to an analytical expression of the diffusion constant that is a function of the scattering coefficient, but also on the absorption coefficient of the walls. The results obtained with this extended diffusion model are then compared with the classical diffusion model, as well as with a sound particles tracing approach considering mixed wall reflections. The comparison shows a good agreement for long rooms with uniform low absorption (α = 0.01) and uniform scattering. For a larger absorption (α = 0.1), the agreement is moderate, due to the fact that the proposed expression of the diffusion coefficient does not vary spatially. In addition, the proposed model is for now limited to uniform diffusion and should be extended in the future to more general cases.
authors: Cerema, Laboratoire Régional de Strasbourg, 11 rue Jean Mentelin, 67035 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.
authors: Cédric
authors: C
authors: Foy
authors: LUNAM Université, IFSTTAR, AME, LAE, Centre de Nantes, CS 4, Route de Bouaye, F-44341 Bouguenais, France.
authors: Judicaël
authors: J
authors: Picaut
authors: Institut PPRIME UPR 3346, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA, ENSIP-B 7, 6 rue Marcel Doré, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France.
authors: Vincent
authors: V
authors: Valeau