Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)

Acoustic Emission (AE) techniques have been studied in civil engineering for a long time.

This book presents the consolidated acoustic data for all phones in Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB), commonly known as Bangla, a Bengali language used by 350 million people in India, Bangladesh, and the Bengali diaspora.

This book describes the properties of materials used for making percussion instruments for classical music played by a symphony orchestra in which the instruments could be played as a soloist instrument or as a group or several groups of instruments, as they are included into a musical work.

Physical Acoustics: Principles and Methods, Volume XII, covers the fundamental physical phenomena and important engineering applications of physical acoustics.

Many years spent in an industrial engineering laboratory have convinced me that there is ever-increasing need to present recent and current research in forms which can be easily assimilated by engineers, technical managers, and others concerned with applications and the development of new tech- nology.

Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris.

This book highlights the symmetry properties of acoustic fields and describes the gauge invariance approach, which can be used to reveal those properties.

Physical Acoustics: Principles and Methods, Volume III-Part B: Lattice Dynamics covers the interaction of acoustic waves with certain motions and wave types in solids that produce changes in their velocity and attenuation.

Shock wave research covers important inderdisciplinaryareas which range from basic topics on gasdynamics,combustion and detonation, physico-chemistry of hightemperature gases, plasma physics, astro and geophysics,materials science, astronautics and space technology tomedical and industrial applications.

This book presents a comprehensive review of how acoustic waves are processed by the auditory system into structured sounds such as musical melodies, speech utterances, or environmental sounds.

The handbook covers the topics of vibro-acoustics, noise, harshness and their related applications in detail.

This book presents seven chapters examining selected noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) topics that are highly relevant for automotive vehicle development.

This improved and updated second edition covers the theory, development, and design of electro-acoustic transducers for underwater applications.

The International Conference on Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Fluctuations brings together physicists and engineers interested in all aspects of noise and fluctuations in materials, devices, circuits, and physical and biological systems.

The first International Symposium on Shipboard Acoustics, held in Noordwijkerhout (The Netherlands) in 1976, was a meeting of invited experts, each having considerable expertise in ship acoustics.

This book presents a new classification of speech acts.

Advanced Signal Processing for Communication Systems consists of 20 contributions from researchers and experts.

This is the first book which describes completely the nontraditional difference schemes which combine the ideas of Pade-type approximation and upwind differencing.

An engineer's introduction to concepts, algorithms, and advancements in Digital Signal Processing.

In this audacious book, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life.

Modern Problems in Condensed Matter Sciences, Volume I: Surface Polaritons: Electromagnetic Waves at Surfaces and Interfaces describes the basic properties of surface polaritons and the methods of generating these waves in the laboratory at frequencies of interest to condensed matter physicists.

Rapid growth of the mobile communication market has triggered extensive research on the bulk as well as surface acoustic wave devices in the last decade.

Sonochemistry and the Acoustic Bubble provides an introduction to the way ultrasound acts on bubbles in a liquid to cause bubbles to collapse violently, leading to localized 'hot spots' in the liquid with temperatures of 5000(deg) celcius and under pressures of several hundred atmospheres.

Now in an accessible paperback edition, this classic work is just as relevant as when it first appeared in 1974, due to the increased use of nonlinear waves.

Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition addresses the problem of developing efficient automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which maintain a balance between utilizing a wide knowledge of speech variability, while keeping the training / recognition effort feasible and improving speech recognition performance.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the theory of sound propagation in the ocean.

Recently, there have been significant advances in the fields of high-enthalpy hypersonic flows, high-temperature gas physics, and chemistry shock propagation in various media, industrial and medical applications of shock waves, and shock-tube technology.

In a good concert hall, a big orchestra can evoke remarkably spacious sounds.

This book describes how human hearing works and how to build machines that analyze sounds in the same way that people do.

INTRODUCTORY APPLICATIONS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS With Emphasis on Wave Propagation and Diffusion This is the ideal text for students and professionals who have somefamiliarity with partial differential equations, and who now wishto consolidate and expand their knowledge.

A modern account of the nonlinear interactions between waves and mean flows such as shear flows and vortices.

First book devoted to subject; an essential reference for applied mathematicians, physicists and engineers.

The construction of large interferometers for gravitational wave detection is now in progress in Europe and in the United States.

Recently, there have been significant advances in the fields of high-enthalpy hypersonic flows, high-temperature gas physics, and chemistry shock propagation in various media, industrial and medical applications of shock waves, and shock-tube technology.

The book presents a state-of-art overview of numerical schemes efficiently solving the acoustic conservation equations (unknowns are acoustic pressure and particle velocity) and the acoustic wave equation (pressure of acoustic potential formulation).

Technical guide to the theory and practice of seismic data processing with MATLAB algorithms for advanced students, researchers and professionals.

This Technical Report presents the outcome of a Working Group that was established to determine broadly applicable sound exposure guidelines for fishes and sea turtles.

As man turns his attention from the overcrowded continents of this planet and explores the spaciousness of the ocean, the applications of ocean acoustics become increasingly numerous and important.

This volume deals with topical problems concerning technology and design in construction of modern metamaterials.

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

Der große Bereich der Elektroakustik wird mit Schwerpunkten auf den Gebieten der Schallfelder, der Wandler und ihres Betriebsverhaltens, der Raumakustik sowie der Aufnahme- und Speichertechnik erläutert.

This extensively reworked 2nd edition of the book includes ten new chapters.

This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "e;Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy,"e; at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.