On the acoustics of St Cecilia’s hall: Measurements and comparison of wave-based and geometrical acoustics modelling

Brian Hamilton, Michael J. Newton, Giulia Fratoni, Dario D’orazio

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Abstract

St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built concert hall, has a distinctive elliptical-domed shape which exhibits non-diffuse acoustical characteristics. This talk presents preliminary results from a study which utilities a state-of-theart wave-based, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation platform to investigate the acoustics of St Cecilia’s Hall. The outputs of the wave-based simulation are compared to measurements in the space, and to a commercial geometrical acoustics (GA) software that relies on diffuse-field assumptions.
Original languageEnglish
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Sept 2019
EventInternational Symposium on Room Acoustics - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 15 Sept 201919 Sept 2019

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Room Acoustics
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period15/09/1919/09/19

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