First edition	3
	Foreword	5
	Preface	6
	Content	10
	Introduction	15
	1 Fundamentals of acoustics	20
	1.1 Sound field equations and the wave equation	21
	1.2 Plane waves in fluid media	26
	1.3 Plane harmonic waves	28
	1.4 Wideband waves and signals	28
	1.5 Energy and level	29
	1.6 Sound intensity	32
	1.7 Level arithmetic	33
	1.8 Frequency bands	34
	2 Sound sources	36
	2.1 Spherical waves waves waves waves waves waves	36
	2.2 Harmonic monopole source and sound power	37
	2.3 Pulsating sphere and radiation impedance	39
	2.4 Multipoles and extended sources	41
	2.5 Spherical harmonics	44
	3 Sound propagation	47
	3.1 Reflection of plane waves at an impedance plane	47
	3.2 Spherical wave above impedance plane	53
	3.3 Scattering	54
	3.4 Diffraction	59
	3.5 Refraction	60
	3.6 Attenuation	61
	3.7 Doppler effect	63
	4 Sound fields in cavities and in rooms	65
	4.1 Cavities	65
	4.2 Modes	66
	4.3 Geometrical acoustics	70
	4.4 Statistical reverberation theory	71
	5 Structure-borne sound	81
	5.1 Waves in solid media	81
	5.2 Waves on plates and their radiation	84
	5.3 Vibrational transmission over junctions	88
	6 Psychoacoustics	90
	6.1 Anatomy of the peripheral hearing system	90
	6.2 Psychoacoustic characterization	92
	6.3 Binaural hearing	97
	6.4 Hearing in rooms	103
	7 Signal processing for auralization	114
	7.1 The concept of auralization	114
	7.2 Fundamentals of signal processing	117
	7.3 Fourier transformation	121
	7.4 Analogue-to-digital conversion	123
	7.5 Discrete Fourier transformation	126
	7.6 Fast Fourier transformation transformation	127
	7.7 Digital filters	130
	8 Characterization of sources	134
	8.1 Airborne sound sources	134
	8.2 Structure-borne sound sources	144
	9 Convolution and sound synthesis	147
	9.1 Discrete convolution	147
	9.2 FFT convolution	149
	9.3 Binaural synthesis	151
	9.4 Binaural mixing console	153
	9.5 Spatial resolution of HRTF	155
	10 Simulation models	157
	10.1 Simulation methods for sound and vibrational fields	157
	10.2 Two-port models	176
	10.3 Other models	183
	11 Simulation of sound in rooms	184
	11.1 General	184
	11.2 Stochastic ray tracing	190
	11.3 Image source model	208
	11.4 Hybrid image source models (deterministic ray tracing)	219
	11.5 Systematic uncertainties of geometrical acoustics	222
	11.6 Hybrid models in room acoustics	225
	11.7 Construction of binaural room impulse responses	231
	12 Simulation and auralization of airborne sound insulation	236
	12.1 Definitions of airborne sound transmission	237
	12.2 Sound insulation of building elements	238
	12.3 Sound insulation of buildings	242
	12.4 Sound transmission prediction models	244
	12.5 Auralization of airborne sound insulation	247
	13 Simulation and auralization of structure- borne sound	253
	13.1 Definitions of impact sound transmission	253
	13.2 Impact sound model	254
	13.3 Impact sound auralization	257
	13.4 Structure-borne interaction model	259
	14 Binaural transfer path synthesis	262
	14.1 Source identification and characterization	264
	14.2 Transfer path characterization	269
	14.3 Auralization in BTPS	271
	15 Aspects of real-time processing	274
	15.1 Real-time binaural synthesis	275
	15.2 Room acoustical real-time auralization	277
	15.3 Hybrid real-time room auralization	284
	16 3-D sound reproduction and virtual reality systems	286
	16.1 Headphone systems	287
	16.2 Loudspeaker systems	294
	16.3 VR technology and integrated VR systems	305
	Annex	310
	References	325
	Index	337