Target scattering calculations with the parabolic equation method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 735-741

  Levy, Mireille F ^a   Zaporozhets, Andrew A ^a,b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031910915     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421198     Document Type: Article

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