Theoretical study of the Kirchhoff integral from a two-dimensional randomly rough surface with shadowing effect: Application to the backscattering coefficient for a perfectly-conducting surface

Waves Random Media

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-118

  Bourlier, C ^a   Berginc, G ^b   Saillard, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SHADOWING EFFECT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0035303836     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/11/2/302     Document Type: Article

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