Maarten Hornikx
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About
I was born in 1980 in Veldhoven, a place in the southern part of the Netherlands. I studied the M.Sc. programm of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. In 2004, I graduated after having chosen for the specialism of building physics. During my studies, I spend some time in interesting study related activities; I was member of the committee, organizing building physical measurement expeditions to the icehotel in Jukkasjärvi (Sweden, 2002) and turfhouses and an ancient parliament site (Iceland, 2003). (publications unfortunately only in Dutch). Also, I have worked for two years in the science shop of the faculty.
During my internship at the department of applied acoustics in 2002, I worked with a statistical approach to study urban sound propagation. I became interested in the subject of outdoor sound propagation and continued in my Master's thesis project with the title 'modelling urban sound propagation in a moving medium'. The thesis work was partly carried out at the TNO Institute of applied physics.
My PhD project proceeds on the fruitful work of previous PhD-students in our outdoor sound propagation group. Urban noise is one of the main environmental problems nowadays. Access to quiet areas in cities is important to avoid adverse health effects of road traffic noise. I am mainly dealing with predicting the sound field at these sites, which are shielded from direct road traffic noise. In 2006, I presented results of a scale model study and developments and results of a prediction model; my Licenciate thesis. In the fall of 2007, I visited the National Center of Physical Acoustics (NCPA) in Oxford, MS. This center is one of the leading institutes on atmospheric acoustics research. I worked together with Roger Waxler.
My interests lie in the 'understanding' of acoustics from the physics and using this knowledge by solving equations governing acoustical phenomena in applications. Acoustics is always related to several other fields of science. Therefore, I'm convinced that the 'understanding' of and working with acoustics will be supported by studying these fields as fluid dynamics, heat transfer, scientific computing and signal processing.
In the academical year 07/08, I'm involved in the following courses: Introduction to sound and vibration, TA2 and Building Acoustics and Community Noise (BAC).
Publications
Theses
[LT] Sound propagation to two-dimensional shielded urban areas, a numerical and scale model study of facade treatments. Licenciate's thesis report: lic 2006:6, ISSN 1652-9146. Division of Applied Acoustics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2006.
[MT] Modelling urban sound propagation in a moving medium. Master's Thesis report 04.16.A, Acoustics Laboratory, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2004.
Journal Publications
[J7] Hornikx, M. Forssén, J., (2008). Noise abatement schemes for shielded canyons. Applied Acoustics, in press.
[J6] Hornikx, M. Forssén, J., (2008). A scale model study of parallel urban canyons. Acta Acustica - Acustica, Vol 94(2), 265-281.
[J5] Hornikx, M. Forssén, J., (2007). The 2.5-dimensional equivalent sources method for directly exposed and shielded urban canyons. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol 122(5), 2532-2541.
[J4] Forssén, J., Hornikx M., (2006). Statistics of A-weighted road traffic noise levels in shielded urban areas. Acta Acustica - Acustica, Vol. 92(6), 998-1008.
[J3] Tegelaers, G., Hornikx, M., Hak, C. (2004). Akoestische studie naar de historische buitenlocatie van het parlement in IJsland. Bouwfysica 17(4), 8-12.
[J2] Dijken, F. v., Hornikx, M.C.J. (2002). De akoestiek van een ijskapel. Bouwfysica 15(3), 28-32.
[J1] Bron-v.d.Jagt, G.S., Hak, C.C.J.M., Hornikx, M.C.J. (2002). Bouwfysica boven de poolcirkel: Meetexpeditie studenten TU/e onder extreme omstandigheden. Bouwfysica 15(3), 4-5.
Conference papers
[C14] Hornikx, M., Waxler, R. (2008). An eigenfunction expansion method to efficiently evaluate spatial derivatives for media with discontinuous properties. Acoustics '08 conference, 29 June - 4 July, Paris, France.
[C13] Schiff, M., Hornikx, M., Forssén, J. (2008). A numerical study of sound propagation over urban canyons. Acoustics '08 conference, 29 June - 4 July, Paris, France.
[C12] Forssén, J., Hornikx, M. (2008). Characteristics of road traffic noise level statistics for shielded areas. Acoustics '08 conference, 29 June - 4 July, Paris, France. (abstract only)
[C11] Hornikx, M., Forssén, J. (2007). Improving the shielding of road traffic noise in courtyards: treatments with vertical and horizontal screens. ICA, 19th int. congress on acoustics, 2-7 September, Madrid, Spain.
[C10] Hornikx, M., Forssén, J. (2007). Improving the shielding of road traffic noise in courtyards: absorption treatments. Inter-Noise 2007, 28-31 August, Istanbul, Turkey.
[C9] Forssén, J., Hornikx, M. (2007). Statistics of road traffic noise levels in shielded urban areas. Inter-Noise 2007, 28-31 August, Istanbul, Turkey.
[C8] Hornikx, M., Forssén, J. (2006). Scale model measurements and numerical modelling for directly exposed and shielded urban street canyons. Baltic-Nordic Acoustics meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden.
[C7] Forssén, J., Hornikx, M. (2006). Statistics of road traffic noise in shielded urban areas: An initial study of A-weighted levels. Baltic-Nordic Acoustics meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden.
[C6] Hornikx, M., Forssén, J. (2006). Sound abatement schemes for real life shielded urban street canyons. 12th Long Range Sound Propagation Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana.
[C5] Hornikx, M., Forssén, J., Kropp, W. (2006). Scale model measurements and numerical modelling for directly exposed and shielded urban street canyons. Euronoise, Tampere, Finland.
[C4] Forssén, J., Hornikx, M. (2006). Statistics of road traffic noise in shielded urban areas: an initial study of A-weighted levels. Euronoise, Tampere, Finland.
[C3]- Hornikx, M., Forssén, J., Kropp, W. (2005). A scale model study of parallel urban street canyons. 149th meeting Acoustical Society of America joint with the Canadian Acoustical Association, Vancouver, Canada. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 2417. (abstract only)
[C2] Hornikx, M. (2004). Towards a parabolic equation for modeling urban sound propagation. 11th Long Range Sound Propagation Symposium, Fairly, Vermont.
[C1] Hornikx, M., Thorsson, P, (2003). On the statistical approach of sound propagation through urban areas, 10th international congress on sound and vibration, Stockholm, Sweden. p. 1421-1428.
Oral presentations
[O2] Hornikx, M. (2006). Scale model measurements for directly exposed and shielded urban street canyons. ARC symposium, NTNU Trondheim, Norway.
[O1] Hornikx, M. (2004). An advanced parabolic equation method to model outdoor sound propagation.German acoustical society, Workshop Physikalishe Akustik, Bad Honnef, Germany.
