APPLIED ACOUSTICSSince its launch in 1968, Applied Acoustics has been publishing high quality research papers providing state-of-the-art coverage of researchfindings for engineers and scientists involved in applications of acoustics in the widest sense.Applied Acoustics looks not only at recent developments in the understanding of acoustics but also at ways of exploiting that understanding.The Journal aims to encourage the exchange of practical experience through publication and in so doing creates a fund of technologicalinformation that can be used for solving related problems. The presentation of information in graphical or tabular form is especiallyencouraged. If a report of a mathematical development is a necessary part of a paper it is important to ensure that it is there only as an integralpart of a practical solution to a problem and is supported by data.Applied Acoustics encourages the exchange of practical experience in the following ways:

• Complete Papers • Review Articles• Short Technical Notes

and thereby provides a wealth of technological information that can be used to solve related problems.Manuscripts that address all fields of applications of acoustics ranging from medicine and NDT to the environment and buildings arewelcome. An indication of the breadth of coverage is given by the titles of Special Issues since 2004:

Sound shielding in the presence of turbulenceMusical AcousticsUrban AcousticsInnovative Applications of Materials for Acoustic PurposesDetection and localization of marine mamals using passive acousticsTime-domain modelling in outdoor sound propagationApplication of Acoustics to MedicineHead- Related Transfer Function and its Applications

Editor-in-Chief

Y.W. LAMSchool of Computing, Science and Engineering, Newton G55, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK

Associate Editors

K.M. LIRay W. Herrick Laboratories, School of Mechanical Engineering, 140 S. Martin Jischke Drive, Purdue University, West Lafayette,

IN 47907-2031, USA

M. POSTEMAUniversitetet i Bergen, Institutt for fysikk og teknologi, Postboks 7803, 5020 Bergen

K. SAKAGAMIEnvironmental Acoustics Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Rokko, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan

B. LIUInstitute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2712, Beijing 100190, P.R. China

Founding Editor

P. Lord

Emeritus Editor

Z. MAEKAWA

Editorial Board

K. AttenboroughResearch Professor, DDEM, The Open University

D. BotteldoorenDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC),Ghent University, Belgium

A. CummingsUniversity of Hull, Hull, UK

C. HansenUniversity of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

M. HodgsonUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

C. HopkinsSchool of Architecture, Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK

K. Horoshenkov (Book Review Editor)School of Engineering, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

C.H. HarrisonSACLANT Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy

J.-G. IhKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,Taejon, Korea

U. KristiansenNorwegian University of Science and Technology,Trondheim, Norway

V.V. KrylovDepartment of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering,Loughborough University, Leicestershire

H.P. LeeInstitute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

R. MakarewiczInstitute of Acoustics, A. Mickiewicz University,Poznan, Poland

T. OtsuruFaculty of Engineering, Oita University,Oita, Japan

R. RaspetThe University of Mississippi, USA

D. SharpDEME, Faculty of Technology,The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

R. SinghThe Ohio State University, Ohio, USA

Y. SuzukiResearch Institute of Electrical Communication,Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

D.C. SwansonThe Pennsylvania State University, USA

D.J. ThompsonUniversity of Southampton, Southampton, UK

C.E. TrumanUniversity of Bristol, Bristol, UK

G. Vermeir (CIB Editor)Catholic University of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

M. VorlanderInstitut fur Technische Akustik, Aachen, Germany

O. ZaporozhetsNational Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine