IUTAM Symposium on Diffraction and Scattering in Fluid Mechanics and Elasticity

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Scattering of Rossby Waves by Ocean Ridges....Pages 3-12
Wave Diffraction Through a Gap in a Breakwater of Non-Zero Thickness....Pages 13-21
Nonlinear Effects in Wave Scattering and Generation....Pages 23-34
Reflection by Slotted Thick Barriers under Oblique Wave Attack: A Numerical Study....Pages 35-44
The Finite Dock Problem....Pages 45-51
Long Periodic Waves on a Beach....Pages 53-60
Waves Trapped Under a Moving Pressure Distribution....Pages 61-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Localised Oscillations Near Submerged Obstacles....Pages 71-78
Approximations to Embedded Trapped Modes in Wave Guides....Pages 79-86
Trapped Modes about Tube Bundles in Waveguides....Pages 87-94
Phononic Band Structures for Arrays of Circular Cavities in an Elastic Medium....Pages 95-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
The Split-Operator Technique in Acoustical Physics....Pages 107-114
A Unified Model for the Properties of Composite Materials....Pages 115-122
Acoustic Modelling of Signature Reduction Materials for Underwater Applications....Pages 123-132
Acoustic Wave Phase Conjugation in Active Media....Pages 133-140
Wave Passage Through a String Having Multielement Inclusions with Partial Interior Dynamics....Pages 141-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Diffraction Coefficients for a Circular Impedance Cone....Pages 151-158
On the Acoustics of a Thick Shear Layer....Pages 159-168
The Wavenumber Surface in Blade-Vortex Interaction....Pages 169-178
Diffraction of Creeping Waves by Conical Points....Pages 179-187
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Effects of Temperature Gradient on the Propagation of an Acoustic Solitary Wave in an Air-Filled Tube....Pages 189-198
Scattering by Blunt and Sharp Convex Obstacles in Two Dimensions....Pages 199-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Diffraction Coefficients for Tilted Surface-Breaking Cracks....Pages 209-216
Domain Sensitivity Analysis of the Elastic Far-Field Patterns....Pages 217-225
Factorisation of a Certain Wiener-Hopf Matrix Arising in Diffraction Theory....Pages 227-234
Theory of Crack Front Waves....Pages 235-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Formation of an Unknown Discrete Spectrum in a General Spectrum for Structures Interacting with a Fluid....Pages 253-260
A New Class of Point Models in Diffraction by Thin Elastic Plates....Pages 261-268
A 2-D Model of the Interaction between a Pressure Wave and a Submerged Sandwich Panel....Pages 269-277
On The Propagation and Scattering of Fluid-Structural Waves in a Three-Dimensional Duct Bounded by Thin Elastic Walls....Pages 279-288
Ultrasonic Backscattering Enhancements for Truncated Objects in Water: Quantitative Models, Tests and Special Cases....Pages 289-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Kiss Singularities of Green’s Functions for Non-Strictly Hyperbolic Equations....Pages 295-302
Deflection of a Partially Clamped Elastic Plate....Pages 303-312
Seismic Wave Dynamics in Regular and Singular Points of the Ray....Pages 313-320
Propagation in Curved Waveguides....Pages 321-328
Eigensolutions for Rayleigh Wave Analysis....Pages 329-336
Waves in Wood....Pages 337-344
Boundary Integral Methods for Elastic Layered Media....Pages 345-352
Back Matter....Pages 353-353