An investigation of the small slope approximation for scattering from rough surfaces. Part I. Theory

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 2082-2093

  Thorsos, Eric I ^a   Broschat, Shira Lynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ROUGH SURFACES; SMALL SLOPE APPROXIMATION; SOUND SCATTERING; VORONOVICH (1985);

EID: 0028976743     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.412001     Document Type: Article

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