Analysis of the neighborhood of a smooth caustic for true-amplitude one-way wave equations

Wave Motion

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 323-338

  Bleistein, Norman ^a   Zhang, Yu ^b   Zhang, Guanquan ^c  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b CGG   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING COMPUTING   (China)

Author keywords

Airy functions; One way wave equation; Ray theory; Smooth caustics; Stationary phase; Uniform asymptotic expansion

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AIRY FUNCTIONS; ONE-WAY WAVE EQUATION; SMOOTH CAUSTICS; STATIONARY PHASE; UNIFORM ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

RAY TRACING; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 33645844539     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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