CONTENTS -- Preface -- Wave Propagation Theory -- Uniformly Asymptotic Solutions for Pseudodifferential Equations with Singular Integral Operators -- The Kirchhoff-Helmholtz Integral Pair -- Analysis and Processing of Received Signals in Boreholes -- Informational Capacity of Acoustic Measurements -- Resonances of Acoustic Waves Interacting with an Elastic Seabed -- Modeled Velocity and Reflectivity Properties of Anisotropic Hydrated Sediments -- Reflection/Transmission Coefficients at a Plane Interface in Dissipative and Nondissipative Isotropic Media: A Comparison -- Analysis of the Reflection and Transmission Coefficients in Three-Phase Sandstone Reservoirs -- Fractional Diffusive Waves -- Acoustic Excitation of Scholte-Stoneley and Lamb Waves on a Reinforced Cylindrical Shell -- On the Adiabaticity of Acoustic Propagation Through Nongradual Ocean Structures -- Ferromagnets and Kelvin's Medium: Basic Equations and Wave Processes -- Propagation of Ultrasonic Waves in Nonlinear Multilayered Media -- Optimal Model for the Diffraction Effect in the Ultrasonic Field of Piston Transducers -- Oblique Acoustic Axes in Trigonal Crystals -- Acoustic Time Series Variability and Time Reversal Mirror Defocusing Due To Cumulative Effects Of Water Column Variability -- Numerical and Experimental Time-Reversal of Acoustic Waves in Random Media -- Fluctuations of Elastic Waves Due to Random Scattering from Inclusions -- Numerical Study of the Wave Instability Problem with the Effect of the Transverse Velocity Component -- Sound Propagation Vibrations and Noise -- Airborne Acoustics of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions -- Sound Generation of Interacting Perturbed Vortex Rings.

A Wide-Angle Parabolic Equation for Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Moving Media: Applications to Atmospheric Sound Propagation -- Acoustics of Kinematically Complex Shear Flows -- Ultrasound Propagation Through a Rotational Flow: Numerical Methods Compared to Experiments -- Wave Propagation on an Elastic Beam Traveling in a Tube: Linear Theory of Aerodynamic Loading -- On the Vibration of Membrane Partially Protruding Above the Surface of Liquid -- Vibrational Analysis of Ships with Coupled Finite and Boundary Elements -- Transverse Resonant Oscillations in Acoustic Ducts -- Noise Shielding by Simple Barriers: Comparison Between the Performance of Spherical and Line Sound Sources -- Wave Propagation Through Hollow Bodies and Noise Reduction -- Generation of Ground Elastic Waves by Road Vehicles -- Underwater Acoustics -- Broadband Matched-Field Localization Performance in Uncertain Environments Using a Short Array -- A Frequency Domain Inversion Method Applied to Oblique Reflected Signals from a Water-Sediment Interface -- Application of a Three-Dimensional Two-Way Parabolic Equation Model for Reconstructing Images of Underwater Targets -- Determination of a Buried Object in a Two-Layered Shallow Ocean -- New Schemes of Ocean Acoustic Tomography -- Numerical Simulation of Transverse Current Monitoring in the Pram Strait -- Prospects for Medium-Scale Diffraction Tomography on the Shelf -- Engineering Seismology -- Applications of the Modal Summation Technique to the Theoretical Site Response Estimation -- Earthquake Ground Motion Simulation Through the 2-D Spectral Element Method -- The Variational Indirect Boundary Element Method: A Strategy Toward the Solution of Very Large Problems of Site Response.

Efficiency and Optimization of the 3-D Finite-Difference Modeling of Seismic Ground Motion -- Three-Dimensional Ground Motion Simulations for Large Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault with Dynamic and Observational Constraints -- Modifications of the Ground Motion in Dense Urban Areas -- Numerical Simulations of Strong Ground Motion During Destructive Earthquakes in Hokkaido Japan -- Application of the Integral Laguerre Transforms for Forward Seismic Modeling -- Parallel 3D Fourier Spectral Simulation of Strong Ground Motion in Osaka Basin During the 1995 Kobe Earthquake -- Ultrasonic Field Synthesis and Modelling -- Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Computing Spatial Impulse Responses for Simulating Medical Ultrasound Imaging -- Mechanism of Acoustic Wave Propagation: A Real Role of Virtual Sources -- Synthesis of Unequally Spaced Arrays with Asymmetric Beam Patterns -- Real-Time Deconvolution in Ultrasonic Imaging Systems -- Time Reversal in Acoustics -- Computation of the Ultrasonic Field Radiated by Segmented-Annular Arrays -- Numerical Techniques for Modeling Doppler Ultrasound Spectra Systems -- Influence of the Inter-Element Coupling on Ultrasound Array Radiation Patterns -- Computational Methods -- A Direct Discrete Formulation for the Wave Equation -- An Hexahedral Face Element Method for the Displacement Formulation of Structural Acoustics Problems -- A Comparison of Numerical Methods for Active Sonar Array Performance -- On the Efficient Implementation of the Integral Equation Method in Elastodynamics -- A Generalized Mode Matching Method for Scattering Problems with Unbounded Obstacles -- AILU for Helmholtz Problems: A New Preconditioner Based on the Analytic Parabolic Factorization.

Application of a Domain Decomposition Method with Lagrange Multipliers to Acoustic Problems Arising from the Automotive Industry -- Visualization of the Energy Flow in and Around a Fluid Loaded Elastic Sphere -- Noise Prediction Based on the Spectral Method for Solving a Dissipative Boundary Value Problem in Acoustics and Its Numerical Realization -- Sine Solution of the Shallow Water Equations -- Finite Elements for Wave Problems -- Numerical Studies of Conjugated Infinite Elements for Acoustical Radiation -- A Reflection Free Boundary Condition for Propagation in Uniform Flow Using Mapped Infinite Wave Envelope Elements -- A Review of Infinite Element Methods for Exterior Helmholtz Problems -- On Fundamental Aspects of Exterior Approximations with Infinite Elements -- Finite Element Solution of Two-Dimensional Acoustic Scattering Problems Using Arbitrarily Shaped Convex Artificial Boundaries -- Third-Order Doubly Asymptotic Approximations for Computational Acoustics -- Analytical and Numerical Studies of a Finite Element PML for the Helmholtz Equation -- Continued-Fraction Absorbing Boundary Conditions for the Wave Equation -- Optimal Local Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions for Time-Dependent Waves -- Mixed Finite Elements with Mass-Lumping for the Transient Wave Equation -- Short Wave Modelling Using Special Finite Elements -- A Numerical Comparison of Finite Element Methods for the Helmholtz Equation -- Efficient Computation of Multi-Frequency Far-Field Solutions of the Helmholtz Equation Using Pade Approximation -- An Iterative Time-Stepping Method for Solving First-Order Time Dependent Problems and Its Application to the Wave Equation -- Wave Propagation Modeling.

Fictitious Domains Mixed Finite Elements and Perfectly Matched Layers for 2-D Elastic Wave Propagation -- Higher-Order Mass-Lumped Finite Elements for the Wave Equation -- Numerical Study of Elastic Wave Scattering by Cracks or Inclusions Using the Boundary Integral Equation Method -- Finite-Difference Modeling in Media with Many Small-Scale Cracks -- Scale and Angle Dependent Reflection Properties of Self-Similar Interfaces -- Elastic Waves Generated by High-Speed Trains -- Adaptive Finite Element Techniques for the Acoustic Wave Equation -- Wave Propagation in 2-D Elastic Media Using a Spectral Element Method with Triangles and Quadrangles -- A Comparative Study of Explicit Differential Operators on Arbitrary Grids -- A High-Order Fast Marching Scheme for the Linearized Eikonal Equation -- Frequency Domain Wave Propagation Modeling in Exploration Seismology -- Three-Dimensional Time Domain Modeling of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Concrete in Explicit Consideration of Aggregates and Porosity -- Time Domain Modeling of Axisymmetric Wave Propagation in Isotropic Elastic Media with Cent - Cylindrical Elastodynamic Finite Integration Technique -- On the Propagation of Acoustic Pulses in Porous Rigid Media: A Time-Domain Approach -- Triangle-Quadrangle Grid Method for Poroelastic Elastic and Acoustic Wave Equations -- Absorbing Layer via Wave-Equation Splitting -- Optimised Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Elastic-Wave Propagation -- Conjugated Infinite Elements for Two-Dimensional Time-Harmonic Elastodynamics -- Inverse Problems and Tomography -- Reconstruction of Layered Elastic Bottom Characteristics by the Frequency Dependence of Sound Reflectivity -- Joint 3D Traveltime Inversion of P S and Converted Waves -- Complete Families and Rayleigh Obstacles.

A Simple Regularization Method for Solving Acoustical Inverse Scattering Problems.