Nonlinear focusing of acoustic shock waves at a caustic cusp

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 566-577

  Marchiano, Régis ^a   Coulouvrat, François ^a   Thomas, Jean Louis ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTION; WAVEFRONTS;

ACOUSTIC SHOCK WAVES; CAUSTIC CUSP; SELF-REFLECTION; WAVEFRONT GEOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK WAVE; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WAVEFORM;

EID: 13544259669     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1841551     Document Type: Article

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