WAVELET & WAVE ANALYSIS AS APPLIED..V74

“… this original book offers three facets of great interest. The first one presents a useful condensed resume on wavelets for nonspecialists. The second produces a view of waves that is also original in exhibiting the specific role played by special functions such as Chebyshev-Hermite functions. The third puts forward the notion of elastic wavelets, an approach that considerably extends the class of analysable initial pulses as recorded in mechanical experiments … this book may be of high interest to many scientists in modern materials sciences, applied mathematicians and theoretical mechanicians, and all those interested in the dynamical analysis of real materials endowed with a microstructure.”