Numerical simulations and analytic approximations of transmission through a random medium

DOI10.1016/0165-2125(88)90036-4MaRDI QIDQ1095693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John A. Fawcett

Publication date 1988

Published in Wave Motion (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-2125(88)90036-4

zbMATH Keywords

Approximate expressionsdiscrete medium of N layersidentically distributed random variablesindependentinvariant probability measurelayer matrix formulation of wave propagationmeanMonte Carlo simulationsnormally incident plane waveperturbationrefractive indexsmall noise assumptionstochastically layered mediumthickness of each layertransmissionvariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Random materials and composite materials (74A40) Waves in solid mechanics (74J99) Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics (74S99)

Review text

In this paper, the transmission of a normally incident plane wave through a stochastically layered medium is investigated. When the refractive index and thickness of each layer are independent, identically distributed random variables, it is shown that the logarithm of the transmission coefficient, ln\(| T|\), normalized by the number of layers, N, converges to a constant, as \(N\to \infty\). In fact, ln\(| T| /N\) is normally distributed with variance proportional to 1/N. Approximate expressions for the mean and the variance of the distribution of ln\(| T| /N\) are derived for small, random variations of the refractive index and verified using Monte Carlo simulations.

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