Computation of high frequency wave diffraction by a half plane via the Liouville equation and geometric theory of diffraction

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1106-1128

  Jin, Shi ^a   Yin, Dongsheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric optics; Geometric theory of diffraction; High frequency waves; Liouville equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849152968     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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