Earthquakes, a plucked string, ocean waves crashing on the
beach, the sound waves that allow us to recognize known voices.
Waves are everywhere, and the propagation and classical properties
of these apparently disparate phenomena can be described by the
same mathematical methods: variational calculus, characteristics
theory, and caustics. Taking a medium-by-medium approach, Julian
Davis explains the mathematics needed to understand wave
propagation in inviscid and viscous fluids, elastic solids,
viscoelastic solids, and thermoelastic media, including hyperbolic
partial differential equations and characteristics theory, which
makes possible geometric solutions to nonlinear wave problems. The
result is a clear and unified treatment of wave propagation that
makes a diverse body of mathematics accessible to engineers,
physicists, and applied mathematicians engaged in research on
elasticity, aerodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
This book will particularly appeal to those working across
specializations and those who seek the truly interdisciplinary
understanding necessary to fully grasp waves and their behavior. By
proceeding from concrete phenomena (e.g., the Doppler effect, the
motion of sinusoidal waves, energy dissipation in viscous fluids,
thermal stress) rather than abstract mathematical principles, Davis
also creates a one-stop reference that will be prized by students
of continuum mechanics and by mathematicians needing information on
the physics of waves.
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