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Articles | Volume 24, issue 3
Articles | Volume 24, issue 3
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09 Aug 2017
Research article |  | 09 Aug 2017

Effect of disorder on bulk sound wave speed: a multiscale spectral analysis

Rohit Kumar Shrivastava and Stefan Luding

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