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Waves in Fluids and Solids

Edited by: Ruben Pico Vila

ISBN 978-953-307-285-2, Hard cover, 314 pages
Publisher: InTech
Publication date: September 2011
Subject: Mechanical Engineering

Acoustics is an discipline that deals with many types of fields wave phenomena. Originally the field of Acoustics was consecrated to the sound, that is, the study of small pressure waves in air detected by the human ear. The scope of this field of physics has been extended to higher and lower frequencies and to higher intensity levels. Moreover, structural vibrations are also included in acoustics as a wave phenomena produced by elastic waves. This book is focused on acoustic waves in fluid media and elastic perturbations in heterogeneous media. Many different systems are analyzed in this book like layered media, solitons, piezoelectric substrates, crystalline systems, granular materials, interface waves, phononic crystals, acoustic levitation and soft media. Numerical methods are also presented as a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and an inverse scattering method.



Table of Contents

  1. Acoustic Waves in Layered Media - From Theory to Seismic Applications
    Alexey Stovas and Yury Roganov
    276 views, 136 downloads
  2. Soliton-Like Lamb Waves in Layered Media
    I. Djeran-Maigre and S. V. Kuznetsov
    203 views, 64 downloads
  3. Surface and Bulk Acoustic Waves in Multilayer Structures
    V. I. Cherednick and M. Y. Dvoesherstov
    244 views, 56 downloads
  4. The Features of Low Frequency Atomic Vibrations and Propagation of Acoustic Waves in Heterogeneous Systems
    Alexander Feher, Eugen Syrkin, Sergey Feodosyev, Igor Gospodarev, Elena Manzhelii, Alexander Kotlar and Kirill Kravchenko
    203 views, 54 downloads
  5. Multiple Scattering of Elastic Waves in Granular Media: Theory and Experiments
    Leonardo Trujillo, Franklin Peniche and Xiaoping Jia
    283 views, 97 downloads
  6. Interface Waves
    Hefeng Dong and Jens M. Hovem
    224 views, 98 downloads
  7. Acoustic Properties of the Globular Photonic Crystals
    N. F. Bunkin and V. S. Gorelik
    161 views, 29 downloads
  8. A Fourth-Order Runge-Kutta Method with Low Numerical Dispersion for Simulating 3D Wave Propagation
    Dinghui Yang, Xiao Ma, Shan Chen and Meixia Wang
    349 views, 149 downloads
  9. Studies on the Interaction Between an Acoustic Wave and Levitated Microparticles
    Ovidiu S. Stoican
    211 views, 53 downloads
  10. Acoustic Waves in Bubbly Soft Media
    Bin Liang, Ying Yuan, Xin-ye Zou and Jian-chun Cheng
    232 views, 61 downloads
  11. Inverse Scattering in the Low-Frequency Region by Using Acoustic Point Sources
    Nikolaos L. Tsitsas
    183 views, 42 downloads