Three classes of courant-hilbert progressive solutions to the scalar wave equation

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1047-1060

  Besieris, Ioannis M ^a   Shaarawi, Amr M ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

COURANT HILBERT ANSATZ; FOCUS WAVE MODE; SCALAR WAVE EQUATION; SUBLUMINAL TYPE LOCALIZED SOLUTIONS; SUPERLUMINAL TYPE LOCALIZED SOLUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0036338821     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939302X00589     Document Type: Article

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