Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields (Springer Series on Wave Phenomena)
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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1993Book
Author(s)Yu A. Kravtsov,Yu I. Orlov,M. G. Edelev
PublisherSpringer
ISBN9783540565871
LanguageEnglish
