Sound diffraction around screens and wedges for arbitrary point source locations

A development is presented for the Green’s function for a point source in the vicinity of a rigid wedge. The diffraction contributions to the Green’s function for arbitrary source and listener location is expressed in a form which can be readily evaluated using the Laguerre technique for numerical integration. The present approach offers the advantages of efficient numerical evaluation and of relatively straightforward reduction to well-known analytical approximations in limiting cases. Comparisons with previously obtained experimental and numerical results obtained by Ambaud and Bergassoli [Acustica 27, 291–298 (1972)] are presented. The comparison with the experimental results is excellent; the advantages of the present numerical technique, vis a vis that of Ambaud and Bergassoli, are pointed out.