Properties of wave localization play a decisive role both in applications of engineered microstructures and in the detection of cracks and flaws. The papers in this volume give an introduction into a variety of interrelated dynamic localization phenomena occurring in elasticity, acoustics and electromagnetism. In particular, these involve surface and edge waves and also trapped modes localized near defects, shape changes and the edges of elongated waveguides. The effects of layering, prestress, anisotropy, periodic microstructures as well as various multi-field phenomena are addressed with...

This book explores a variety of interrelated dynamic localization phenomena occurring in elasticity, acoustics and electromagnetism, especially surface and edge waves and trapped modes localized near defects, shape changes and edges of elongated waveguides.