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Bengt Enflo

Professor
Phone: int+46-8-790 71 56
Fax: int+46-8-796 98 50
E-mail: benflo@mech.kth.se
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Education

Ph.D. and Docent in theoretical physics with mechanics, University of Stockholm, 1965.

Professional history

Research associate (forskarassistent), University of Stockholm, 1962 Docent, University of Stockholm, 1965 Senior lecturer (universitetslektor), KTH, 1969 Professor (biträdande

Research and Professional Activities

Research in quantum mechanics, especially deuteron theory and relativistic scattering, and in theoretical acoustics, especially nonlinear wave propagation and sound diffraction. Supervisor of theses for master's, licentiate's, and doctor's degree. Commissions as organizer of conferences, as expert for appointments of docents and lecturers, as opponent and member of the board of reviewers of doctor's dissertations and as reviewer for journals.

Publications

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Year Title
2008 Nonlinear Acoustics – Fundamentals and Applications. Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics (18th ISNA), Stockholm, Sweden, 7-10 July 2008
AIP Conference Proceedings 1022 
2008 A standing acoustic wave with shocks in a cubically nonlinear medium, Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics (18th ISNA), Stockholm, Sweden, 7-10 July 2008
AIP Conference Proceedings 1022 263-66
2007 Behavior of intense acoustic noise at large distances
Acoustical Physics 53 48-63
2007 Finite-Amplitude Standing Acoustic Waves in a Cubically Nonlinear Medium
Acoustical Physics 53 455-464
2006 Standing waves in quadratic and cubic nonlinear resonators: Q-factor and frequency response
AIP Conference Proceedings 838 457-460
2006 Standing and propagating waves in cubically nonlinear media
AIP Conference Proceedings 834 187-195
2006 Wave motion in a medium with a cubic nonlinearity
Proc. 4th Polyakov Readings, S:t Petersburg 7-10 February 2006  65-74
2006 The nonlinear decay of cylindrical and spherical acoustic random waves
Modern Problems of Statistical Physics 5 5-34
2005 Resonant properties of a nonlinear dissipative layer excited by a vibrating boundary: Q-factor and frequency response
J. of the acoustical society of America 117 601-612
2005 Large-Time Asymptotics for Periodic Solutions of the Modified Burgers Equation
Stud. Appl. Math. 114 307-323
2004 Nonlinear standing and travelling waves in dissipative media (invited lecture)
Proc. 27th Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, Ustaoset, Nurway 2004  
2004 Nonlinear standing waves in a closed tube
Proceedings of the International Conference mathematical Modelling of Wave Phenomena 2002, Växjö, Sweden, 3-8 November 2002  181-189
2003 Nonlinear standing waves in a layer excited by the periodic motion of its boundary
Proc. 16th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, Moscow  1 49-52
2003 A more precise equation for sound beams in dissipative fluids. Effect shock-shocks.
Proc. 16th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, Moscow  1 57-60
2003 Old-age stage evolution of intense cylindrical and spherical acoustic noise
Proc. 16th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, Moscow  1 341-348
2003 Large-time asymptotics for periodic solutions of some generalized Burgers' equations
Stud. Appl. Math. 110 181-204
2002 To the theory of generalized Burgers' equations
Acta Acustica 88 155-162
2002 Theory of Nonlinear Acoustics in Fluids
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Fluid Mechanics and its Applications 67 296 pp
2001 The decay of Plane Wave Pulses With Complex Structure in a Nonlinear Dissipative Medium
Acta Acustica 87 16-28
2001 Nonlinear standing waves in a layer excited by the periodic motion of its boundary
Acoustical Physics 47 525-533
2001 Fourier decomposition of a plane nonlinear sound wave developing from a sinusoidal source
Acta Acustica 87 163-169
2000 Nonlinear N-wave propagation through a one-dimensional phase screen
Acta Acustica 86 229-238
2000 Fourier Decomposition of a Plane Nonlinear Sound Wave and Transition from Fubini's to Fay's Solution
Journal of Physics D. Applied Physics  117-120
2000 Sound beams with shockwave pulses
Acoustical Physics 46 728-733
1999 The decay of pulses with complex structure according to Burgers' equation
Acta Acustica 85 181-196
1998 On the connection between the asymptotic waveform and the fading tail of an initial N-wave in nonlinear acoustics.
Acta Acustica 84 401-413
1998 Diffraction of sound against barrers with simple edge profiles.
NAM 98, Proc. of the Nordic Acoustic Meeting, Stockholm 7-9 Sept. 1998  97-99
1998 Diffraction of sound against barriers with simiple edge profiles
Proc. of the 21th Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, 1-4 Feb., 1998  
1997 Sound Beams with shockwave pulses.
proceedings of the international symposium on Hydroacoustics and Ultrasonic, EAA Symposium, Gynia, Technical University of Gdansk, Jurata, Poland  75-78
1997 The decay of pulses with complex structure according to Burgers` equation
TRITA-PDC Report.  
1996 Saturation of nonlinear spherical and cylindrical sound waves.
J. Acoust Soc. Am. 99 1960-1964
1996 The sound field in the center of a nonlinear bounded beam.
J. Tech. Phys 37 485-487
1996 The sound field in the center of a nonlinear bounded beam in Nonlinear Acoustics in Perspective.
Proc. 14:th International Symposium on nonlinear acoustics  17-21
1995 Nonlinear planar, cylindrical and spherical acoustic waves in fluids.
article in Current topics in acoustic research, Trivandrum, India.  
1994 Propagation of nonlinear acoustics waves according to Burgers` and generalized Burgers` equations.
In Non-linear diffusion phenomenon. New Delhi, India.  24-39
1993 Old-age behaviour of nonplanar shockwaves. In Advances in nonlinear acoustics.
Proceedings of the 13:th international Symposium on nonlinear acoustics. Bergen, Norway.  179-183
1993 Some analytical results on nonlinear acoustics wave propagation in diffusive media.
Radiofizika 36 665-686

Internal reports

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Year Title Type
1959 Construction of wave equations by Eriksson's spinor formalism. Licentiate thesis

Projects

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Period Title Area
1997- Propagation and diffraction of sound in fluids Theoretical and computational mechanics
1997-2002 Theoretical investigations of underwater sound Theoretical and computational mechanics
1995- Diffraction of sound by noise barriers Theoretical and computational mechanics
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