IUTAM Symposium on Diffraction and Scattering in Fluid Mechanics and Elasticity

Preface. Symposium Photograph. Introduction. Part I: Free surface and other geophysical waves. 1. The scattering of Rossby waves by ocean ridges; I.D. Abrahams, et al. 2. Wave diffraction through a gap in a breakwater of non-zero thickness; N.R.T. Biggs, D. Porter. 3. Nonlinear effects in wave scattering and generation; R.H.J. Grimshaw. 4. Reflection by slotted thick barriers under oblique wave attack: a numerical study; M. Kanoria, B.N. Mandal. 5. The finite dock problem; C.M. Linton. 6. Long periodic waves on a beach; A. Shermenev, M. Shermeneva. 7. Waves trapped under a moving pressure distribution; J.-M. Vanden-Broeck. Part II: Energy trapping and propagation. 8. Localised oscillations near submerged obstacles; M. McIver. 9. Approximations to embedded trapped modes in wave guides; P. McIver. 10. Trapped modes about tube bundles in waveguides; R. Porter, D.V. Evans. 11. Phononic band structures for arrays of circular cavities in an elastic medium; V.V. Zalipaev, et al. Part III: Propagation through inhomogeneous media. 12. The split-operator technique in acoustical physics; D. Bosquetti, J. Sánchez-Dehesa. 13. A unified model for the properties of composite materials; P.R. Brazier-Smits. 14. Acoustic modelling of signature reduction materials for underwater applications; F.H. Kerr, A.M. Baird. 15. Acoustic wave phase conjugation in active media; A. Merlen, et al. 16. Wave passage through a string having multielement inclusions with partial interior dynamics;A.D. Sergeyev, D.A. Sergeyev. Part IV: Diffraction and propagation of acoustic waves. 17. Diffraction coefficients for a circular impedance cone; Y.A. Antipov. 18. On the acoustics of a thick shear layer; L.M.B.C. Campos, M.H. Kobayashi. 19. The wavenumber surface in blade-vortex interaction; C.J. Chapman. 20. Diffraction of creeping waves by conical points; V.P. Smyshlyaev, et al. 21. Effects of temperature gradient on the propagation of an acoustic solitary wave in an air-filled tube; N. Sugimoto, K. Tsujimoto. 22. Scattering by blunt and sharp convex obstacles in two dimensions; R.H. Tew. Part V: Scattering by cracks. 23. Diffraction coefficients for tilted surface-breaking cracks; V.M. Babich, et al. 24. Domain sensitivity analysis of the elastic far-field patterns; M. Bochniak, F. Cakoni. 25. Factorisation of a certain Wiener-Hopf matrix arising in diffraction theory; P.A. Lewis. 26. Theory of crack front waves; J.R. Willis, A.B. Movchan. Part VI: Fluid structural wave interaction. 27. Formation of an unknown discrete spectrum in a general spectrum; A.K. Abramian. 28. A new class of point models in diffraction by thin elastic plates; I.V. Andronov. 29. 2-D model of the interaction between a pressure wave and a submerged sandwich panel; S. Kadyrov. 30. On the propagation and scattering of fluid-structural waves in a three-dimensional duct bounded by thin elastic walls; J.B. Lawrie, I.D. Abrahams. 31. Ultrasonic backscattering enhancements for truncated objects in water