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Lecture: introduction (basics of acoustics, wave equation, some relevant mathematics), sound field computation: general task formulation, approximate solution strategies, finite difference method, integral formulations, finite elements, shape functions, element matrices, modal extraction, harmonic analysis, practical application of the finite element method, Green's function, Kirchhoff-Helmholtz-Integral equation, boundary elements, collocation, thin structures, Rayleigh's formula, method of equivalent sources
Exercise: computer-based exercises, implementation of basic numerical methods in Python, exercises on mesh generation, application of an industry-grade software tool for numerical acoustics computations, problem-solving strategies