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Those refereed convention court cases are meant to summarise the most recent advancements in diffraction conception as mentioned on the IUTAM Symposium on Diffraction and Scattering in Fluid Mechanics and Elasticity held in Manchester, England, in July 2000.This casual assembly was once organised to debate the mathematical advances, either from the theoretical and extra utilized issues of view; although, its fundamental target was once to foster interactions among scientists and engineers operating with waves in fluids and waves in solids who percentage universal types, phenomenological good points coming up in such difficulties, and customary mathematical instruments. the themes coated contain floor water waves and different geophysical waves, diffraction and propagation of acoustic waves, trapped modes in unmarried and multi-body difficulties, propagation via inhomogeneous media, elastic wave propagation and scattering together with non-destructive trying out, and fluid structural wave interactions.
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