Extension of the local curvature approximation to third order and improved tilt invariance

Waves in Random and Complex Media

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-119

  Elfouhaily, Tanos M ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SET THEORY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DIRICHLET SINUSOIDAL GRATINGS; KIRCHOFF APPROXIMATION KERNELS; LOCAL CURVATURE APPROXIMATION; SURFACE TILT; TILT INVARIANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 33748291450     PISSN: 17455030     EISSN: 17455049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17455030600643572     Document Type: Article

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