The energy conservation equation in the reflector mapping problem

DOI10.1016/0893-9659(93)90156-HzbMath0770.35079MaRDI QIDQ2366003

Elsa Newman, Vladimir I. Oliker

Publication date: 29 June 1993

Published in: Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

boundary value problem; ray tracing; conditions for solvability; finding a reflector surface; inverse problem in geometric optics; nonaxially symmetric input energy density; second order nonlinear partial differential equation of Monge-Ampere type; synthesis of single reflector antennas; uniform output energy distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35R30: Inverse problems for PDEs

78A50: Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory

53A05: Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces

78A05: Geometric optics

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