Prediction of low-frequency sound field in rooms with complex-valued boundary conditions on walls

A modal representation of a room impulse response has been used to formulate expressions for low-frequency sound field in rooms of arbitrary shape. Based on theoretical results, a simulation program has been developed to predict a sound pressure distribution and a room transfer function for rectangular enclosure having walls covered by a material of complex impedance. Calculation results have shown that changes in the wall reactance entail a substantial modification of a sound pressure distribution. Furthermore, an influence of wall reactance on the room transfer function was investigated and it was discovered that a change in a reactance sign causes a shift in frequencies of modal vibrations excited in the room.