Rays, Waves, and Scattering

DOI10.1515/9781400885404MaRDI QIDQ2961601zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John A. Adam

Publication date 15 February 2017

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400885404

zbMATH Keywords

rainbowwavespolarizationresonancesscatteringwave equationconvectiondiffractionHamilton-Jacobi theoryHuygens principlewater wavesacoustic waveseikonal equationelastic wavesatmospheric wavesraysRayleigh scatteringFresnel integralsSommerfeld radiation conditiontsunamisocean acousticsgravitational scatteringCoulomb scatteringAiry integralseismic raysplan wavesWenzel-Kramer-Brillouin (WKB) approximationWichert-Hergloztz inversionSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Seismology (including tsunami modeling), earthquakes (86A15) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Physics (00A79) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Ship waves (76B20) Waves in solid mechanics (74Jxx) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-01)

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