This volume, available for the first time in paperback, is a standard work on the physical aspects of acoustics. Starting from first principles, the authors hav

Presents the main basis of modelling in acoustics. Includes the procedures used to describe a physical phenomenon by a system of equations and then to solve thi

This important book provides an account of the linear acoustics of basic isotropic/anisotropic structures excited by time-harmonic and transient mechanical forc