DocumentCode
2805478
Title
Subsonic nondiffracting waves in anisotropic crystals
Author
Salo, Janne ; Fagerholm, Juha ; Friberg, Ari T. ; Salomaa, Martti M.
Author_Institution
Mater. Phys. Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo, Finland
Volume
2
fYear
1998
fDate
1998
Firstpage
1179
Abstract
We formulate nondiffracting waves (NDW) in a way which is directly applicable to isotropic as well as to anisotropic waves. Using this description, we show that anisotropic NDWs show both new qualitative and quantitative properties when compared with corresponding isotropic waves. In particular, we demonstrate that anisotropic materials can support subsonic NDWs while only supersonic nondiffracting solutions are known for isotropic wave motion
Keywords
acoustic wave propagation; elastic waves; anisotropic crystals; anisotropic materials; anisotropic waves; isotropic wave motion; isotropic waves; subsonic NDWs; subsonic nondiffracting waves; supersonic nondiffracting solutions; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Crystalline materials; Crystals; Laboratories; Mathematics; Partial differential equations; Physics; Scientific computing; Shape; Surface waves;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Ultrasonics Symposium, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE
Conference_Location
Sendai
ISSN
1051-0117
Print_ISBN
0-7803-4095-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ULTSYM.1998.765049
Filename
765049
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