“…1,[12][13][14] The most often used simulation a Electronic mail: graczyk@amu.edu.pl methods are that of finite elements, that of finite differences 2,15 and that of plane waves. 11,15 The results obtained by computation have been verified by experiments. 12,[16][17][18] In this paper, propagation of surface waves in a two-dimensional phononic crystal is simulated by the finite elements method (FEM) and plane waves method (PWM).…”