Parabolic equation formulation via a singular perturbation technique and its application to scattering from irregular surfaces

Waves Random Media

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 315-328

  Awadallah, Ra'id S ^a   Brown, Gary S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

ASYMPTOTIC PERTURBATION; IRREGULAR SURFACES; PARABOLIC WAVE EQUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0032115092     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/8/3/004     Document Type: Article

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