Questions about elastic waves /

Questions about elastic waves /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Engelbrecht, Jüri, author.
Imprint:	Cham : Springer, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	Online access with purchase: Springer (t)
Subject:	Elastic waves. Elastic waves.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11092303

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ISBN:	9783319147918 3319147919 3319147900 9783319147901 9783319147901
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 11, 2015).
Summary:	This book addresses the modelling of mechanical waves by asking the right questions about them and trying to find suitable answers. The questions follow the analytical sequence from elementary understandings to complicated cases, following a step-by-step path towards increased knowledge. The focus is on waves in elastic solids, although some examples also concern non-conservative cases for the sake of completeness. Special attention is paid to the understanding of the influence of microstructure, nonlinearity and internal variables in continua. With the help of many mathematical models for describing waves, physical phenomena concerning wave dispersion, nonlinear effects, emergence of solitary waves, scales and hierarchies of waves as well as the governing physical parameters are analysed. Also, the energy balance in waves and non-conservative models with energy influx are discussed. Finally, all answers are interwoven into the canvas of complexity.
Other form:	Printed edition: 9783319147901
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-14791-8

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction? What is all that about?- 2 What is wave motion
3 How to model waves?
4 What are internal variables? Arkadi Berezovski answers.- 5 What are evolution equations? . 6 What physical effects are involved?
7 What physical mechanisms govern waves in non-conservative systems?
8 What is complexity of waves?
References
Index.