Compared to other medical breast imaging techniques, ultrasonic imaging is more attractive due to its relatively low cost and wide clinical use. This study is concerned with clinical amplitude/velocity reconstruction imaging (CARI) ultrasonography for accurately detecting breast cancer using two acoustic properties: the sound speed and the attenuation. Bioacoustic modeling is used to describe u...

The paper deals with the propagation of a finite-amplitude circularly polarized electromagnetic plane wave through a fully ionized hot collisionless plasma, composed of Q ( > 1) types of ions and of electrons, as a strict solution of the non-relativistic self-consistent Vlasov equations within the scope of some given applicability criterions. A constant magnetic field and a constant total plasm...

Pipes are widely used in many industrial and mechanical applications and devices. Although there are many different constructions according to the specific application and device, these can show helical pattern, such as spiral pipes, wire-reinforced pipes/shells, spring-suspension, and so on. Theoretical modelling of wave propagation provides a prediction about the dynamic behavior, and it is f...

It has not been possible to measure wave speed in the human coronary artery, because the vessel is too short for the conventional two-point measurement technique used in the aorta. We present a new method derived from wave intensity analysis, which allows derivation of wave speed at a single point. We apply this method in the aorta and then use it to derive wave speed in the human coronary arte...

This paper describes the use of genetic algorithms (GAs) for the optimal design of phononic bandgaps in periodic elastic two-phase media. In particular, we link a GA with a computational finite element method for solving the acoustic wave equation, and find optimal designs for both metal–matrix composite systems consisting of Ti/SiC, and H2O-filled porous ceramic media, by maximizing the relati...

The stability of a rapid dynamic crack in a two-dimensional infinite strip is studied in the framework of linear elastic fracture mechanics supplemented with a modified principle of local symmetry. It is predicted that a single crack becomes unstable by a finite wavelength oscillatory mode at a velocity vc, 0.8cR<vc<0.85cR, where cR is the Rayleigh wave speed. The relevance of this theoretical ...

A Semi-Analytical Finite Element (SAFE) method is developed to model accurately the propagation velocity and leakage of guided waves along an immersed waveguide with arbitrary non-circular cross-section. Thus an accurate inverse model is provided to measure the density of the fluid by measuring the change of the torsional wave speed. Experimental results obtained with a rectangular bar in a ran...

The work studies wave activity in spatial systems, which exhibit nonlocal spatial interactions at the presence of a finite propagation speed. We find analytically propagation delay-induced oscillatory instabilities for various local excitatory and lateral inhibitory spatial interactions. Further, the work shows for general nonlocal interactions analytically that the first kernel Fourier moment ...

This paper examines several contributors to eye diagram degradation in high-speed digital systems. The eye diagrams are generated through a combination of full wave simulation and circuit analysis. The interconnect part of the analyzed structure is first characterized in terms of S parameters obtained with the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The resulting S parameters are used toge...