A fixed grid method for capturing the motion of self-intersecting wavefronts and related PDEs (Q1587859)
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A fixed grid method for capturing the motion of self-intersecting wavefronts and related PDEs (English)
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19 June 2001
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The authors develop a dynamic surface extension method in order to handle some self-intersection problems, such as the formation of swallowtails, in the geometric optics model of wavefront motion.
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dynamic surface extension methods
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geometric optics
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wavefront
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ray tracing
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reflection
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refraction
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swallowtail
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curvature motion
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