What can it do for me?

SlownessBuddy is a program designed to obtain slowness curves for acoustic waves in a piezoelectric substrate, and this should normally be the only reason to use it. The program comes with a windows interface, but also launches several DOS programs when it comes to finite element analysis (this shortcoming is caused by the use of Modulef in its present version).

SlownessBuddy can compute slowness curves in the following cases:

In any case SlownessBuddy will only output text files containing data in columns (it will not plot anything, but the output is formatted to be plotted with any *good* plotting program such as gnuplot). The text files contain the following information (except for the mixed matrix estimation case):

Please keep in mind the following important facts: