University of Bologna
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-the-art 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.