TY - BOOK ID - 8652927 TI - Waves in fluids and solids AU - Pico Vila, Ruben AU - Vila, Ruben PicoĢ PY - 2011 SN - 9535160532 9533072857 PB - IntechOpen DB - UniCat KW - Wave-motion, Theory of. KW - Undulatory theory KW - Mechanics KW - Fluid mechanics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8652927 AB - Acoustics is an discipline that deals with many types of fields wave phenomena. Originally the field of Acoustics was consecrated to the sound, that is, the study of small pressure waves in air detected by the human ear. The scope of this field of physics has been extended to higher and lower frequencies and to higher intensity levels. Moreover, structural vibrations are also included in acoustics as a wave phenomena produced by elastic waves. This book is focused on acoustic waves in fluid media and elastic perturbations in heterogeneous media. Many different systems are analyzed in this book like layered media, solitons, piezoelectric substrates, crystalline systems, granular materials, interface waves, phononic crystals, acoustic levitation and soft media. Numerical methods are also presented as a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and an inverse scattering method. ER -