Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields
By: by Yu. A. Kravtsov, Yu. I. Orlov
Contributors: Orlov, Yu. I.
Series: Springer Series on Wave Phenomena -- 15; Springer Series on Wave Phenomena -- 15
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9783642974939; 9783642974915
Subjects: Engineering; Physics; Computer engineering; Physical geography
Description: Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields in a sense continues the treatment of the earlier volume 6 "Geometrical Optics of Inhomogeneous Media" by analysing caustics and their fields on the basis of modern catastrophe theory. The present volume covers local and uniform caustic asymptotic expansions: The Lewis-Kravtsov method of standard functions, Maslov's method of canonical operators , Orlov's method of interference integrals, as well as their modifications for penumbra, space-time, random and other types of caustics. All the methods are amply illustrated by worked problems concerning relevant wave-field applications.
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