TY - CHAP AU - N. F. Bunkin AU - V. S. Gorelik ED - Ruben Pico Vila Y1 - 2011-09-22 PY - 2011 T1 - Acoustic Properties of the Globular Photonic Crystals N2 - 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. BT - Waves in Fluids and Solids SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/20340 DO - 10.5772/20340 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -