Download or read book Acoustics of Layered Media II written by Leonid Maksimovich Brekhovskikh and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the authors' Acoustics of layered media I: plane and quasi-plane waves (Springer, 1990). Taken together, the two monographs present a systematic exposition of the theory of sound propagation in inhomogeneous media, which starts from first principles and includes recent accounts. More advanced topics are considered in this second volume. Although the theory of wave beams and fields of localized sources is more sophisticated than the theory of quasi- plane waves, it embraces a much wider range of interesting problems that are also important for applications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR