Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)

The purpose of this volume is to present a clear and systematic account of the mathematical methods of wave phenomena in solids, gases, and water that will be readily accessible to physicists and engineers.

This volume is based on the fifth international conference of quantum bio-informatics held at the QBI Center of Tokyo University of Science.

Elastic waves are used in fields as diverse as the non-destructive evaluation of materials, medicine, seismology and telecommunications.

The author gives a comprehensive overview of materials and components for noise control and acoustical comfort.

This book introduces the fundamental theory of electromagnetic ultrasonic guided waves, together with its applications.

This book delivers a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of practical applications of metamaterials, structured media, and conventional porous materials.

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics takes the reader on a journey from a qualitative introduction to the physical nature of sound, explained in terms of common experience, to mathematical models and analytical results which underlie the techniques applied by the engineering industry to improve the acoustic performance of their products.

This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.

Biotremology is a new and emerging discipline in biological sciences that covers all aspects of behavior associated with substrate-borne mechanical waves.

An introduction to linear acoustics and vibration, which attempts to bridge the gap between theoreticians and practitioners.

The analysis of signals and systems using transform methods is a very important aspect of the examination of processes and problems in an increasingly wide range of applications.

The central theme of this book is the application of the linear filtering theory to the vibration of structures in a fluid.

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

In recent years there has been growing interest in the study of the nonlinear spatio-temporal dynamics of problems appearing in various ?

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research.

This textbook presents the fundamentals of engineering acoustics and examines in depth concepts within the domain that apply to reducing noise, measuring noise, and designing microphones and loudspeakers.

This unique volume presents an original approach to physical acoustics with additional emphasis on the most useful surface acoustic waves on solids.

The interaction of acoustic fields with submerged elastic structures, both by propagation and scattering, is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories world-wide with ever-increasing sophistication of experiments and analysis.

By exploring the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments, this book contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21st century.

Continuum Physics, Volume III: Mixtures and EM Field Theories discusses the field theories for bodies composed of different substances, such as mixtures and interaction of electromagnetic effects with the deformable bodies.

The first thorough synthesis of methods for solving time-domain scattering problems, covering both theoretical and computational aspects.

Theories of surface waves develop since the end of XIX century and many fundamental problems like existence, phase and group velocities, attenuation (quality factor), mode conversion, etc.

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein over 75 years ago.

Quantum mechanics is the foundation of modern technology, due to its innumerable applications in physics, chemistry and even biology.

Dieses auf vier Bände angelegte Lehrbuch der Experimentalphysik orientiert sich an dem weit verbreiteten, viersemestrigen Vorlesungszyklus und behandelt im ersten Band Mechanik und Wärme.

Classical Electromagnetic Radiation, Second Edition focuses on the classical electrodynamics with emphasis on radiation problems and the wave attributes of the electromagnetic field.

This book presents the signal processing algorithms that have been developed to process the signals acquired by a spherical microphone array.

This book presents a mechatronic approach to Active Noise Control (ANC).

Applications of some selected soft computing methods to acoustics and sound engineering are presented in this book.

This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the technology of thermal imaging, and as a compendium of the conventions which form the basis of current FUR practice.

This book introduces parabolic wave equations, their key methods of numerical solution, and applications in seismology and ocean acoustics.

This book presents a concise description of the acoustics of ocean sediment acoustics, including the latest developments that address the discrepancies between theoretical models and experimental measurements.

The revised edition of this book offers an expanded review of acoustic metamaterials; novel materials which can manipulate sound waves, surface Rayleigh waves and water waves, in surprising ways, which include collimation, focusing, negative refraction, passive and active cloaking, sonic screening and extraordinary transmission.

Waves in Layered Media discusses different theories about the relationship between waves and media.

Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900.

This book first introduced the theoretical foundation of nonlinear acoustics such as the basic equations of nonlinear acoustics followed by a statistical mechanics approach to nonlinear acoustics, then a curvilinear spacetime approach to nonlinear acoustics, then a gauge invariance approach to nonlinear acoustics, and application of chaos theory to nonlinear acoustics.

An emerging technology, Speaker Recognition is becoming well-known for providing voice authentication over the telephone for helpdesks, call centres and other enterprise businesses for business process automation.

This text is based on lectures given by the authors to students of the Physico- Technical Institute in Moscow in the course of many years.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the detection and processing of signals in underwater acoustics.

Finite Element Programs for Structural Vibrations presents detailed descriptions of how to use six computer programs (written in Fortran 77) to determine the resonant frequencies of one, two, and three-dimensional skeletal structures through the finite element method.

The International Symposium of Acoustical Imaging has been widely recognized as the premier forum for presentations of advanced research results in both theoretical and experimental development.

This book considers signal processing and physical modeling meth- ods for sound synthesis.

This book presents articles from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2019 (WCAE-2019) held at Guangdong, China.

This book provides an in-depth account of the fascinating but far from simple actions and processes that take place when a brass instrument is played.