Special Issue "Elastic Wave Scattering in Heterogeneous Media"
A special issue of Acoustics (ISSN 2624-599X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 September 2022) | Viewed by 20929
Special Issue Editors

Interests: elastic waves; scattering; attenuation; heterogeneous media; ultrasonic measurements; ultrasonic transducers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Elastic wave scattering in heterogeneous media is a long-lasting research topic in the acoustic field and has practical applications in nondestructive evaluation, biomedical engineering, and geotechnical engineering. Elastic wave scattering takes place around a piece of heterogeneity because the elastic properties of the heterogeneous constituent differ from its surrounding medium, and the scattering can further result in wave beam attenuation and wave velocity dispersion. Thanks to advances in high-performance computing, mathematical modeling, electronics, and data visualization, theoretical developments and experimental measurements about elastic wave scattering have thrived in the recent decade.
This Special Issue aims at linear wave scattering and nonlinear wave scattering in heterogeneous media that include but are not limited to polycrystalline materials, the Earth’s mantle, composite materials, 3D-printed structures, porous media, Voronoi tessellations, and human tissues. This Special Issue seeks to explore cutting-edge research in elastic wave scattering by bringing new models or experimental results. The research approaches could be analytical modeling, numerical modeling (e.g., finite element modeling), experimental measurement or statistical modeling (e.g., machine learning). Additionally, case studies intended for practical applications to determine heterogeneity characteristics (e.g., particle size and morphology, discontinuity, nonlinearity) based on elastic wave scattering, namely solving the inverse problems, are strongly recommended in this Special Issue. Submissions in the form of review articles are also welcome.
Dr. Gaofeng Sha
Dr. Xiongbing Li
Guest Editors
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