Noé Jiménez, is currently "Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación" post-doctoral fellow at Universitat Politècnica de València. He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Acoustics from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (2015). He has been postdoctoral fellow at CNRS (UMR6613 LAUM, Le Mans, France), and at I3M (Spanish Research Council, CSIC). He has been visiting researcher at Columbia University (NY, USA) and at the University of Salford (Manchester, UK). He holds several patents and he is founding member of a spin-off company. His research interests concern fundamental research in acoustic waves in complex, structured media, and metamaterials, to ultrasound for biomedical applications.

Olga Umnova is employed by the University of Salford, UK, since 2004. She holds position of Reader in theoretical acoustics. She has a Ph.D. degree in Physical Acoustics and a M.Sc. in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. She serves as an associate editor in general acoustics for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Her current research interests include materials and metamaterials, particularly for absorption of high amplitude sound.

Jean-Philippe Groby is CNRS researcher at the Acoustics Laboratory of Le Mans University since 2009. He holds an Engineering degree from École Centrale de Marseille (École Supérieur d'Ingénieurs de Marseille), a M.Sc. in Acoustic, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2005) from the University of the Mediterranean Aix-Marseille II. He has been a post-doctoral fellow in KULeuven, École Polytechnique (CMAP, UMR CNRS 7641), Supélec (L2S, UMR CNRS 8506), and IEMN (UMR CNRS 8520). He has been involved actively in the professional life of the acoustic community in Europe, notably serving as a chair of the COST Action DENORMS CA 15125.

Features contributions from recognized international researchers and experienced industrial partners

Describes the main theoretical methods and reviews recent ground-breaking advances in the field of structured materials

Covers the application of acoustic materials in the building, automotive, and aeronautic industries

Part I Wave propagation in periodic and structured media.- Periodic structures and the plane wave expansion method.- Introduction to multiple scattering theory for scalar waves.- Sound wave propagation in sonic crystals.- The transfer matrix method to model one-dimensional phononic crystals and metamaterials.- Part II Wave propagation in absorbing metamaterials and porous media.- Acoustic metamaterial absorbers.- Acoustic wave propagation in viscothermal fluids.- Nonlocal dynamic homogenization of uid-saturated metamaterials.- Numerical methods for modelling and simulation porous materials.- Part III Industrial applications of porous media and acoustic metamaterials.- Industrial applications I: A general Perspective.- Industrial Applications II: Building industry.- Industrial Applications III: Automotive industry.- Industrial Applications IV: Aeronautics industry.