The 21st International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics

Conference Regsitration will open in late 2017. Please see details and deadlines below for more information.

The conference location is historic and picturesque Santa Fe, NM, USA. Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the USA and is renowned for its Pueblo-style architecture, and as a creative arts hotbed. Founded as a Spanish colony in 1610, it has at its heart the traditional Plaza. The surrounding historic district’s crooked streets wind past adobe landmarks like the Palace of the Governors, now home to the New Mexico History Museum.

Scope of the Symposium

General theory of nonlinear acoustics: Analytical methods, numerical methods, ray theory, scattering theory, shocks, solitons, chaos, bifurcation, locallization, phase conjugation, etc...

Nonlinear acoustics in fluids: Sound beams, parametric arrays, resonators, acoustic streaming, radiation pressure, acoustic levitation, etc...

Nonlinear acoustics in multiphase and porous media, and cavitation phenomena: Bubbly liquid, cavitation, sonoluminescence, sonochemistry, etc...

Nonlinear acoustics in solids and structures: Elastic waves, viscoelastic waves, surface waves, nonlinear acousto-electronics, non-destructive evaluation and testing, etc...

Nonlinear acoustics of reacting, relaxing media, and physical kinetics: Nonlinear acoustics in superfluid helium, waves in rarefied gases,micro-acoustics, nano-acoustics, quantum effects, sonic crystals, metamaterials, etc...

Nonlinear acoustics in medicine and biology: Shock wave therapy, diagnostic ultrasound, ultrasound propagation in bone and biological tissue, nonlinear acoustics in speech, etc..

Thermoacoustics: Energy conversion and their devices, aero-thermoacoustics, combustion noise and oscillations, etc..

Nonlinear acoustics of atmosphere, ocean, and earth, and nonlinear underwater acoustics: Shock wave, sonic boom, aircraft noise, intense noise generated by ground transportation, infrasound, acoustic-gravity waves, explosions, earthquakes, etc...

Nonlinear aero- and hydroacoustics: Vortex sound, jets, turbulence, flow-induced sound, etc...

Nonlinear acoustics and optics: Laser generation of acoustic waves, optoacoustical spectroscopy, magneto-acoustics, etc...

General experimental methods: Measurements, instrumentations, etc...

Devices and industrial applications of nonlinear acoustics: Musical acoustics is included here.

Nonlinear elastic behavior in Earth materials and within the Earth itself: Laboratory acoustical and Earth seismic studies

Acoustics and granular physics