Wave momentum and quasi-particles in physical acoustics

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Wave momentum and quasi-particles in physical acoustics

Gérard A. Maugin, Martine Rousseau

(World Scientific series on nonlinear science / editor, Leon O. Chua, Series A, Monographs and treatises ; v. 88)

World Scientific, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This unique volume presents an original approach to physical acoustics with additional emphasis on the most useful surface acoustic waves on solids. The study is based on foundational work of Leon Brillouin, and application of the celebrated invariance theorem of Emmy Noether to an element of volume that is representative of the wave motion.This approach provides an easy interpretation of typical wave motions of physical acoustics in bulk, at surfaces, and across interfaces, in the form of the motion of associated quasi-particles. This type of motion, Newtonian or not, depends on the wave motion considered, and on the original modeling of the continuum that supports it. After a thoughtful review of Brillouin's fundamental ideas related to radiative stresses, wave momentum and action, and the necessary reminder on modern nonlinear continuum thermomechanics, invariance theory and techniques of asymptotics, a variety of situations and models illustrates the power and richness of the approach and its strong potential in applications. Elasticity, piezoelectricity and new models of continua with nonlinearity, viscosity and some generalized features (microstructure, weak or strong nonlocality) or unusual situations (bounding surface with energy, elastic thin film glued on a surface waveguide), are considered, exhibiting thus the versatility of the approach.This original book offers an innovative vision and treatment of the problems of wave propagation in deformable solids. It opens up new horizons in the theoretical and applied facets of physical acoustics.

Table of Contents

  • Wave Momentum and Radiative Stresses
  • Continuum Mechanics
  • Pseudomomentum and Eshelby Stress
  • Action, Phonons and Wave Mechanics
  • Transmission-Reflection Problems
  • Dynamic Materials
  • Elastic Surface Waves in Terms of Quasi-Particles
  • Electroelastic Waves in Terms of Quasi-Particles
  • Generalized Elastic Materials
  • Examples of Solitonic Systems

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  • NCID
    BB18674559
  • ISBN
    • 9789814663786
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Jersey
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 235 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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