Two families of non-local scattering models and the weighted curvature approximation

Waves Random Media

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 563-580

  Elfouhaily, Tanos ^a   Bourlier, Christophe ^b   Johnson, Joel T ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NANTES   (France)

^c The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAY TRACING;

KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; MEECHAM-LYSANOV ANSATZ; NONLOCAL SCATTERING MODELS; RAY TRACING ANSATZ; SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD; WEIGHTED CURVATURE APPROXIMATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 6344252862     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/006     Document Type: Article

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