A critical survey of approximate scattering wave theories from random rough surfaces

Waves Random Media

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Elfouhaily, Tanos Mikhael ^a,b   Guérin, Charles Antoine ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GAUGE TRANSFORMATION; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATION; RANDOM ROUGH SURFACES; SCATTERING AMPLITUDE; SCATTERING WAVE THEORIES; SYNTHETIC TABLES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 6344284493     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/R01     Document Type: Article

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