Nonlinear acoustics / edited by Mark F. Hamilton and David T. Blackstock.

Contributor(s): Hamilton, Mark F | Blackstock, David TMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Academic Press, c1998. ISBN: 0123218608Subject(s): Nonlinear acousticsDDC classification: 534 LOC classification: QC244.2

Contents:

1. History of Nonlinear Acoustics: 1750s-1930s / David T. Blackstock -- 2. The Parameter B/A / Robert T. Beyer -- 3. Model Equations / M. F. Hamilton and C. L. Morfey -- 4. Progressive Waves in Lossless and Lossy Fluids / David T. Blackstock, Mark F. Hamilton and Allan D. Pierce -- 5. Dispersion / M. F. Hamilton, Yu. A. Il'inskii and E. A. Zabolotskaya -- 6. Radiation Pressure and Acoustic Levitation / T. G. Wang and C. P. Lee -- 7. Acoustic Streaming / Wesley L. Nyborg -- 8. Sound Beams / Mark F. Hamilton -- 9. Finite-Amplitude Waves in Solids / Andrew N. Norris -- 10. Perturbation Methods / Jerry H. Ginsberg -- 11. Computational Methods / Jerry H. Ginsberg and Mark F. Hamilton -- 12. Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media (Ray Theory) / C. L. Morfey and F. D. Cotaras -- 13. Statistical Phenomena / S. N. Gurbatov and O. V. Rudenko -- 14. Parametric Layers, Four-Wave Mixing, and Wave-Front Reversal / Harry J. Simpson and Philip L. Marston -- 15. Biomedical Applications / Edwin L. Carstensen and David R. Bacon.

Summary: The present book is a unique text and reference on the theory and applications of nonlinear acoustics. Individual chapters are written by leading experts on their respective subjects. The book combines the merits of a graduate textbook format with the scholarly appeal of a research monograph for physicists and engineers. The first half of the book develops physical concepts, mathematical models, and classical methods of solution. Benchmark experiments are also described. The second half covers special topics and applications, both theory and experiment. Applications include methods for determining the nonlinearity parameter; suppression of sound by sound; acoustic levitation and streaming; sound beams and parametric arrays; statistical phenomena; four-wave mixing; phase conjugation; biomedical effects; propagation in the atmosphere, ocean, waveguides, relaxing fluids, and bubbly liquids.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The present book is a unique text and reference on the theory and applications of nonlinear acoustics. Individual chapters are written by leading experts on their respective subjects. The book combines the merits of a graduate textbook format with the scholarly appeal of a research monograph for physicists and engineers. The first half of the book develops physical concepts, mathematical models, and classical methods of solution. Benchmark experiments are also described. The second half covers special topics and applications, both theory and experiment. Applications include methods for determining the nonlinearity parameter; suppression of sound by sound; acoustic levitation and streaming; sound beams and parametric arrays; statistical phenomena; four-wave mixing; phase conjugation; biomedical effects; propagation in the atmosphere, ocean, waveguides, relaxing fluids, and bubbly liquids.