Topics

1. General theory and numerical methods of nonlinear acoustics.

2. Nonlinear acoustics in fluids.
Beams, resonators, sound in flows, acoustical streaming, shocks, jets,
vortices, turbulence, noise and chaos are included here.

3. Nonlinear acoustics in porous and multiphase media, and cavitation
phenomena.
Sonoluminiscence and sonochemistry are included here.

4. Nonlinear acoustics in solids and structures.
Elastic waves, nonlinear acoustoelectronics, magnetoacoustics and
nonlinear acoustics of crystals are included here.

5. Nonlinear acoustics of relaxing media and physical kinetics.
Topics include effects of the molecular mean free path.

6. Nonlinear acoustics, time reversal and phase conjugation.

7. Thermoacoustics.
Topics include energy conversion in thermoacoustic devices based
on standing or propagating nonlinear waves.

8. Nonlinear acoustics of the atmosphere, the ocean and the earth and
nonlinear underwater acoustics.
Aircraft noise, sonic booms, explosions and earthquakes are included here.

9. Nonlinear acoustics of medicine and biology.
Shockwave therapy, diagnostic ultrasound and nonlinear ultrasound
propagation in bone and biological tissue are included here.

10. Nonlinear acoustics and optics.
Topics include different types of interaction between light and sound
waves, laser generation of acoustic waves and optoacoustical spectroscopy.

11. Nonlinear acoustics applied to evaluation and testing.
Examples of topics included are testing of industrial products,
materials, buildings and geological structures.

12. Devices and industrial applications of nonlinear acoustics.
Nonlinear musical acoustics is included here.