Tangent ray diffraction and the Pekeris caret function

DOI10.1016/J.WAVEMOTI.2015.05.003arXiv1404.6370MaRDI QIDQ6251002FDOQ6251002

Publication date: 25 April 2014

Abstract: We study the classical problem of high frequency scattering of an incident plane wave by a smooth convex two-dimensional body. We present a new integral representation of the leading order solution in the "Fock region", i.e. the neighbourhood of a point of tangency between the incident rays and the scatterer boundary, from which the penumbra (light-shadow boundary) effects originate. The new representation, which is equivalent to the classical Fourier integral representation and its well-studied "forked contour" regularisation, reveals that the Pekeris caret function (sometimes referred to as a "Fock-type integral" or a "Fock scattering function"), a special function already known to describe the field in the penumbra, is also an intrinsic part of the solution in the inner Fock region. We also provide the correct interpretation of a divergent integral arising in the analysis of Tew et al. (Wave Motion 32, 2000), enabling the results of that paper to be used for quantitative calculations.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25)

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