| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Fundamentals of acoustics | p. 7 |
| Sound field equations and the wave equation | p. 8 |
| Sound field quantities | p. 9 |
| Derivation of the wave equation | p. 10 |
| Plane waves in fluid media | p. 13 |
| Plane harmonic waves | p. 15 |
| Wideband waves and signals | p. 15 |
| Energy and level | p. 16 |
| Sound intensity | p. 19 |
| Level arithmetic | p. 20 |
| Frequency bands | p. 21 |
| Sound sources | p. 23 |
| Spherical waves | p. 23 |
| Harmonic monopole source and sound power | p. 24 |
| Pulsating sphere and radiation impedance | p. 26 |
| Multipoles and extended sources | p. 28 |
| Spherical harmonics | p. 31 |
| Sound propagation | p. 35 |
| Reflection of plane waves at an impedance plane | p. 35 |
| Examples of wall impedances | p. 37 |
| Spherical wave above impedance plane | p. 41 |
| Scattering | p. 42 |
| Object scattering | p. 42 |
| Surface scattering | p. 43 |
| Diffraction | p. 47 |
| Refraction | p. 48 |
| Attenuation | p. 49 |
| Doppler effect | p. 51 |
| Sound fields in cavities and in rooms | p. 53 |
| Cavities | p. 53 |
| Modes | p. 54 |
| Boundary conditions | p. 56 |
| Geometrical acoustics | p. 58 |
| Statistical reverberation theory | p. 59 |
| Reverberation | p. 61 |
| Steady-state energy density and level | p. 63 |
| Structure-borne sound | p. 69 |
| Waves in solid media | p. 69 |
| Waves on plates and their radiation | p. 72 |
| Finite-size plates | p. 75 |
| Internal losses and structural reverberation time | p. 75 |
| Vibrational transmission over junctions | p. 76 |
| Psychoacoustics | p. 79 |
| Anatomy of the peripheral hearing system | p. 79 |
| Psychoacoustic characterization | p. 81 |
| Loudness | p. 82 |
| Temporal masking | p. 84 |
| Time-varying loudness | p. 84 |
| Sharpness | p. 84 |
| Fluctuation strength | p. 85 |
| Roughness | p. 85 |
| Tonality, pitch, pitch strength | p. 85 |
| Binaural hearing | p. 86 |
| Head-related transfer functions | p. 87 |
| Artificial heads | p. 90 |
| Hearing in rooms | p. 92 |
| Reverberance | p. 94 |
| Strength | p. 96 |
| Speech intelligibility and transparence | p. 96 |
| Spatial impression | p. 98 |
| Spatial variations in a room | p. 100 |
| Estimation of the monaural subjective parameters | p. 101 |
| Signal processing for auralization | p. 103 |
| The concept of auralization | p. 103 |
| Fundamentals of signal processing | p. 106 |
| Signals and systems | p. 106 |
| Impulse response and transfer function | p. 107 |
| Fourier transformation | p. 110 |
| Analogue-to-digital conversion | p. 112 |
| Discrete Fourier transformation | p. 115 |
| Fast Fourier transformation | p. 116 |
| Sources of errors, leakage and time windows | p. 117 |
| Digital filters | p. 119 |
| Characterization of sources | p. 123 |
| Airborne sound sources | p. 123 |
| Multipole synthesis | p. 124 |
| Musical instruments | p. 126 |
| Singing voice | p. 128 |
| Speaking voice | p. 129 |
| Anechoic recordings | p. 129 |
| Structure-borne sound sources | p. 133 |
| General approach | p. 133 |
| 3-D force sources | p. 135 |
| Convolution and sound synthesis | p. 137 |
| Discrete convolution | p. 137 |
| FFT convolution | p. 139 |
| Segmented convolution | p. 139 |
| Binaural synthesis | p. 141 |
| Binaural mixing console | p. 143 |
| Spatial resolution of HRTF | p. 145 |
| Simulation models | p. 147 |
| Simulation methods for sound and vibrational fields | p. 147 |
| Reciprocity | p. 150 |
| Frequency domain models | p. 153 |
| Time domain models | p. 162 |
| Two-port models | p. 166 |
| Transfer path models | p. 170 |
| Other models | p. 173 |
| Simulation of sound in rooms | p. 175 |
| General | p. 175 |
| CAD room model | p. 176 |
| Absorption coefficients | p. 180 |
| Scattering coefficients | p. 181 |
| Stochastic ray tracing | p. 181 |
| Point-in-polygon test | p. 184 |
| Detectors | p. 185 |
| Presentation of results | p. 186 |
| Curved surfaces | p. 188 |
| Reproducibility in stochastic ray tracing | p. 190 |
| Computation times versus uncertainties - case studies | p. 197 |
| Image source model | p. 199 |
| Classical model | p. 199 |
| Audibility test | p. 202 |
| Limitations | p. 204 |
| Diffraction | p. 206 |
| Reduction of computational load by preprocessing | p. 207 |
| Hybrid image source models (deterministic ray tracing) | p. 210 |
| Systematic uncertainties of geometrical acoustics | p. 213 |
| Hybrid models in room acoustics | p. 216 |
| Hybrid deterministic-stochastic models | p. 217 |
| Construction of binaural room impulse responses | p. 222 |
| Simulation and auralization of airborne sound insulation | p. 227 |
| Definitions of airborne sound transmission | p. 228 |
| Sound insulation of building elements | p. 229 |
| Sound insulation of buildings | p. 233 |
| Flanking transmission | p. 235 |
| Sound transmission prediction models | p. 235 |
| Auralization of airborne sound insulation | p. 238 |
| Simulation and auralization of structure-borne sound | p. 245 |
| Definitions of impact sound transmission | p. 245 |
| Impact sound model | p. 246 |
| Impact sound auralization | p. 249 |
| Structure-borne interaction model | p. 251 |
| Binaural transfer path synthesis | p. 255 |
| Source identification and characterization | p. 257 |
| Airborne sound sources | p. 258 |
| Structure-borne sound sources | p. 261 |
| Transfer path characterization | p. 262 |
| Auralization in BTPS | p. 264 |
| Aspects of real-time processing | p. 267 |
| Real-time binaural synthesis | p. 268 |
| HRTF in multiple degrees of freedom | p. 269 |
| Room acoustical real-time auralization | p. 270 |
| Source and receiver | p. 271 |
| Real-time processing of image sources | p. 272 |
| Real-time modelling of reverberation | p. 275 |
| Hybrid real-time room auralization | p. 277 |
| 3-D sound reproduction and virtual reality systems | p. 279 |
| Headphone systems | p. 280 |
| Headphone equalization for binaural signals | p. 283 |
| Individual filters | p. 284 |
| Loudspeaker systems | p. 287 |
| VBAP surround sound | p. 288 |
| Ambisonics | p. 288 |
| Wave field synthesis | p. 289 |
| Binaural loudspeaker technology | p. 293 |
| VR technology and integrated VR systems | p. 298 |
| Annex | p. 303 |
| Material data | p. 303 |
| Tables of random-incidence absorption coefficients, [gamma] | p. 304 |
| Tables of random-incidence scattering coefficients, s | p. 311 |
| Tables of sound reduction indices, R | p. 316 |
| References | p. 319 |
| Index | p. 331 |
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