Time-frequency methods and phase space are well known to most physicists, engineers and mathematicians as is the traditional Fourier analysis. Recently the latter found for quite a few applications a competitor in the concept of wavelets. Crudely speaking a wavelet decomposition is an expansion of an arbitrary function into smooth localized contributions labeled by a scale and a position parameter.
Jean-Michel Combes
Akustik Astronomy und Astrophysik Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics Geophysik Helmholtz equation Information Science Informationswissenschaft Mathematische Methoden der Physik Optics Phase Wave calculus differential equation