IUTAM Symposium on Diffraction and Scattering in Fluid Mechanics and Elasticity Proceeding of the IUTAM Symposium held in Manchester, United Kingdom, 16–20 July 2000 / edited by I. David Abrahams, Paul A Martin, Michael J. Simon.

These Conference Proceedings are intended to summarise the latest developments in diffraction and scattering theory as reported at the IU­ TAM Symposium on Diffraction and Scattering in Fluid Mechanics and Elasticity held in Manchester, England on 16-20 July 2000. This in­ formal meeting was organis...

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Other Authors: Abrahams, I. David (Editor), Martin, Paul A. (Editor), Simon, Michael J. (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
Edition:1st ed. 2002.
Series:Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, 68
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 The scattering of Rossby waves by ocean ridges
  • 2 Wave diffraction through a gap in a breakwater of non-zero thickness
  • 3 Nonlinear effects in wave scattering and generation
  • 4 Reflection by slotted thick barriers under oblique wave attack: a numerical study
  • 5 The finite dock problem
  • 6 Long periodic waves on a beach
  • 7 Waves trapped under a moving pressure distribution
  • 8 Localised oscillations near submerged obstacles
  • 9 Approximations to embedded trapped modes in wave guides
  • 10 Trapped modes about tube bundles in waveguides
  • 11 Phononic band structures for arrays of circular cavities in an elastic medium
  • 12 The split-operator technique in acoustical physics
  • 13 A unified model for the properties of composite materials
  • 14 Acoustic modelling of signature reduction materials for underwater applications
  • 15 Acoustic wave phase conjugation in active media
  • 16 Wave passage through a string having multielement inclusions with partial interior dynamics
  • 17 Diffraction coefficients for a circular impedance cone
  • 18 On the acoustics of a thick shear layer
  • 19 The wavenumber surface in blade-vortex interaction
  • 20 Diffraction of creeping waves by conical points
  • 21 Effects of temperature gradient on the propagation of an acoustic solitary wave in an air-filled tube
  • 22 Scattering by blunt and sharp convex obstacles in two dimensions
  • 23 Diffraction coefficients for tilted surface-breaking cracks
  • 24 Domain sensitivity analysis of the elastic far-field patterns
  • 25 Factorisation of a certain Wiener-Hopf matrix arising in diffraction theory
  • 26 Theory of crack front waves
  • 27 Formation of an unknown discrete spectrum in a general spectrum
  • 28 A new class of point models in diffraction by thin elastic plates
  • 29 A 2-D model of the interaction between a pressure wave and a submerged sandwich panel
  • 30 On the propagation and scattering of fluid-structural waves in a three-dimensional duct bounded by thin elastic walls
  • 31 Ultrasonic backscattering enhancements for truncated objects in water: quantitative models, tests and special cases
  • 32 Kiss singularities of Green’s functions of non-strictly hyperbolic equations
  • 33 Deflection of a partially clamped elastic plate
  • 34 Seismic wave dynamics in regular and singular points of the ray
  • 35 Propagation in curved waveguides
  • 36 Eigensolutions for Rayleigh wave analysis
  • 37 Waves in wood
  • 38 Boundary integral methods for elastic layered media.