Scattering from two eccentric spheroids: Theory and numerical investigation

International Journal of Engineering Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 174-187

  Mavratzas, Stelios ^a   Charalambopoulos, Antonios ^a   Gergidis, Leonidas N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Arbitrary precision; Collocation method; Mathematical modeling; Numerical acoustics; Penetrable prolate spheroid; Special functions; Vekua transformation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; ARBITRARY PRECISION; COLLOCATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL ACOUSTICS; PROLATE SPHEROID; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS; VEKUA TRANSFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 72949091044     PISSN: 00207225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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