Fermat's principle for non-dispersive waves in non-stationary media

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 460, Issue 2046, 2004, Pages 1631-1647

  Godin, Oleg A ^a,b   Voronovich, Alexander G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Fermat's principle; Geometrical optics; Non stationary media; Wave propagation in inhomogeneous media

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 2542627318     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1231     Document Type: Article

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