On the growth and decay of acceleration waves in random media

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1987, 1999, Pages 2577-2614

  Ostoja Starzewski, Martin ^a   Trebicki, Jerzy ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration wave; Bernoulli equation; Mesoscale; Random media; Stochastic mechanics; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001405186     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0418     Document Type: Article

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