Phase singularities in isotropic random waves

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

Volumn 456, Issue 2001, 2000, Pages 2059-2079

  Berry, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dislocations; Gaussian; Phase; Randomness; Singularities; Waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746390081     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2000.0602     Document Type: Article

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