Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)

For over a century, we've believed that signals travel as waves—riding through space like invisible threads of energy.

What if everything we've been told about quantum mechanics—collapse, uncertainty, entanglement—is built on a misreading of perception?

This book compiles the proceedings of the 18th AVMS Conference, held in Timisoara, Romania, on May 30-31, 2025.

Microphone arrays have attracted a lot of interest over the last few decades since they have the potential to solve many important problems such as noise reduction/speech enhancement, source separation, dereverberation, spatial sound recording, and source localization/tracking, to name a few.

Noise is everywhere and in most applications that are related to audio and speech, such as human-machine interfaces, hands-free communications, voice over IP (VoIP), hearing aids, teleconferencing/telepresence/telecollaboration systems, and so many others, the signal of interest (usually speech) that is picked up by a microphone is generally contaminated by noise.

We live in a noisy world!

Since the 1990s, significant advances have been made in the research on nonlinear dynamics in China.

Since the 1990s, significant advances have been made in the research on nonlinear dynamics in China.

Non Destructive Testing and Non Destructive Evaluation using Ultrasounds covers an important field of applications and requires a wide range of fundamental theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations.

This book summarizes the latest research on cognitive network-layer methods and smart adaptive physical-layer methods in underwater networks.

Blauert's and Xiang's "e;Acoustics for Engineers"e; provides the material for an introductory course in engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics.

This book summarizes the latest research on cognitive network-layer methods and smart adaptive physical-layer methods in underwater networks.

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In the past few years we have written and edited several books in the area of acousticandspeechsignalprocessing.

Modern communication devices, such as mobile phones, teleconferencing systems, VoIP, etc.

Urban planning often focuses on the visual world, thus missing key elements necessary to create healthy communities.

Offering a groundbreaking interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores the fundamental mechanisms behind music perception by bridging music psychology with computational neuroscience.

Offering a groundbreaking interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores the fundamental mechanisms behind music perception by bridging music psychology with computational neuroscience.

This book delves into the science of wood selection and treatment for optimal suitability in the musical instrument industry.

This book delves into the science of wood selection and treatment for optimal suitability in the musical instrument industry.

This book is intended for researchers, engineers, and students who have an interest in designing acoustic sensing solutions on commodity devices.

This book is intended for researchers, engineers, and students who have an interest in designing acoustic sensing solutions on commodity devices.

This textbook covers key aspects of applying surface acoustic waves (SAW) in gas sensors, presenting fundamental operating principles, theoretical models, research methodologies, and sensor structures in a clear and accessible manner.

This textbook covers key aspects of applying surface acoustic waves (SAW) in gas sensors, presenting fundamental operating principles, theoretical models, research methodologies, and sensor structures in a clear and accessible manner.

This book explores the rapidly evolving field of acoustic metamaterials, focusing on their ability to manipulate sound waves through asymmetric transmission, acoustic focusing, and acoustic asymmetric focusing.

How is music born?

How is music born?

This book examines the diagnostic usefulness of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) in the context of theoretical cochlear mechanics.

This book presents the state of the art of asymptotic and related mathematical methods, and how to apply them, as the means of choice, to representative building blocks of interfacial-flow phenomena.

This book presents the state of the art of asymptotic and related mathematical methods, and how to apply them, as the means of choice, to representative building blocks of interfacial-flow phenomena.

This volume is dedicated to the sixtieth birthday of Prof.

This book highlights the mathematical, physical, and technical properties of moving acoustic sources.

This book highlights the mathematical, physical, and technical properties of moving acoustic sources.

The purpose of the book is a mathematical and experimental study of extreme, multivalued waves based on scalar field equations.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of flow-induced vibration and noise, as presented by leading international researchers at the 4th International Symposium on Flow-Induced Noise and Vibration Issues and Aspects (FLINOVIA), which was held in Sydney, Australia, in May 2023.

Photoacoustic imaging (also called optoacoustic imaging) is a hybrid modality based on the generation and detection of ultrasound in response to optical absorption of tissue.

Photoacoustic imaging (also called optoacoustic imaging) is a hybrid modality based on the generation and detection of ultrasound in response to optical absorption of tissue.

This book covers the latest ideas and approaches in strongly nonlinear dynamical and acoustical systems and discusses appropriate modelling tools and practical examples highlighting the non-standard and non-stationary aspects of this challenging, yet so promising area.

This book deals with the phase properties in the context such as sound fields in rooms from a perspective of transfer functions for sound paths.

This book deals with the phase properties in the context such as sound fields in rooms from a perspective of transfer functions for sound paths.

This book describes recent studies of soil behaviour in strong ground motion - one of the most important and problematic issues in engineering seismology.

This book describes recent studies of soil behaviour in strong ground motion - one of the most important and problematic issues in engineering seismology.

This book focuses on two related topics in fluid mechanics, that is, speed of sound through various media and critical flow associated with gas-liquid flows.

This book focuses on two related topics in fluid mechanics, that is, speed of sound through various media and critical flow associated with gas-liquid flows.

This textbook is designed to help students and professionals understand the intimate connection between music and physics.

This book provides a guide for the marine community to understand and address the noise and vibration environment associated with ships.

This textbook is designed to help students and professionals understand the intimate connection between music and physics.

This book provides a guide for the marine community to understand and address the noise and vibration environment associated with ships.

This book presents peer-reviewed and selected papers from the 17th Conference on Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures (AVMS) held in Timisoara, Romania, on 26-27 May 2023.