IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media : proceedings of the IUTAM symposium held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, 18-22 January 1999 / edited by Ross C. McPhedran, Lindsay C. Botten, and Nicolae A. Nicorovici.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

McPhedran, R. C.

Botten, L. C.

Nicorovici, Nicolae A.

Conference Name:

IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media (1999 : Sydney, N.S.W.)

Series:

Solid mechanics and its applications ; v. 91.

Solid mechanics and its applications ; v. 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elastic waves--Congresses.

Elastic waves.

Electromagnetic waves--Congresses.

Electromagnetic waves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2002.

Other Title:

Mechanical and electromagnetic waves in structured media

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media took place at the University of Sydney from January 18- 22, 1999. It brought together leading researchers from eleven countries for a week-long meeting, with the aim of providing cross-links between the com- nities studying related problems involving elastic and electromagnetic waves in structured materials. After the meeting, participants were invited to submit articles based on their presentations, which were refereed and assembled to constitute these Proceedings. The topics covered here represent areas at the forefront of research intoelastic and electromagnetic waves. They include effect of nonlinearity, diffusion and multiple scattering on waves, as well as asymptotic and numerical techniques. Composite materials are discussed in depth, with example systems ranging fromdusty plasmas to a magneto-elastic microstructured system. Also included are studies of homogenisation, that field which seeks to determine equivalent homogeneous systems which can give equivalent wave properties to structured materials, and inverse problems, in which waves are used as a probe to infer structural details concerning scattering systems. There are also strong groups of papers on the localization of waves by random systems, and photonic and phononic band gap materials. These are being developed by analogue with semiconductors for electrons, and hold out the promise of enabling designers to control the propagation of waves through materials in novel ways. We would like to thank the other members of the Scientific Committee (A.

Contents:

Overview

Electric and Elastic Properties of Linear and Non-linear Composites

Advances in the Rayleigh Multipole Method for Problems in Photonics and Phononics

Aspects of Electromagnetic Waves

Random Scattering and the Detection Capability of the Magnetotelluric Method

Phase Singularities in Beams

Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Fibre Gratings

Aspects of Mechanical Waves

Radiation from a Transducer into an Elastic Half-space

Energy Flux in Elasticity and Electromagnetism

On Oscillation of Layered Structures with Imperfect Interfaces

Free Vibration of Elastic Solids: Effect of Boundary Perturbation on Fundamental Frequencies

Diffusing Acoustic Wave Transport and Spectroscopy

Composites

Charged Dust Structures in Plasmas

Longitudinal Magneto-elastic Waves in Solids with Microstructure

Transport Properties of a Fibre-layer Composite Material

Laplace Transform Methods and the Rayleigh Identity for an Array of Elliptical Cylinders

Homogenization

Symmetry Breaking in Annular Domains for a Ginzburg-Landau Superconductivity Model

Diffraction by Perfectly Conducting Capacitive Grids: Photonic Band Structures and Circuit Models

Photonic Crystal Optics and Homogenization of 2D Periodic Composites

Asymptotics of Photonic Band Structures for Doubly-periodic Arrays

Photonic Band Gap Materials and Localization

Electromagnetic Modelling of Dielectric and Metallic Photonic Crystals

Band Gap Engineering in Metallic PBG Materials at Microwave Frequencies using Composite Material and Defect Lattice

Photonic Bands and Scattering for Stacks of Lossy, Dispersive Cylinders

Surface Plasmons and Zero Order Metal Gratings

General Characteristics of Localization in Stratified Media with Random Loss and Gain

Light Amplification and Attenuation in Stratified Structures with Complex Refractive Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-20514-8

9786610205141

0-306-46955-3

OCLC:

517840439