Questions About Elastic Waves

• Main Author: Engelbrecht, Jüri (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Partial differential equations.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Mathematical models.; Physics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Partial Differential Equations.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

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 i...

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.