Scalar Wave Theory: Green's Functions and Applications
This book comprises some of the lecture notes I developed for various one-or two-semester courses I taught at the Colorado School of Mines. The main objective of all the courses was to introduce students to the mathematical aspects of wave theory with a focus on the solution of some specific fundamental problems. These fundamental solutions would then serve as a basis for more complex wave propagation and scattering problems. Although the courses were taught in the mathematics department, the audience was mainly not mathematicians. It consisted of gradu­ ate science and engineering majors with a varied background in both mathematics and wave theory in general. I believed it was necessary to start from fundamental principles of both advanced applied mathematics as well as wave theory and to develop them both in some detail. The notes reflect this type of development, and I have kept this detail in the text. I believe it essential in technical careers to see this detailed development at least once. This volume consists of five chapters. The first two on Scalar Wave Theory (Chapter 1) and Green's Functions (Chapter 2) are mainly mathematical although in Chapter 1 the wave equation is derived from fundamental physical principles. More complicated problems involving spatially and even temporally varying media are briefly introduced.
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Scalar Wave Theory: Green's Functions and Applications
This book comprises some of the lecture notes I developed for various one-or two-semester courses I taught at the Colorado School of Mines. The main objective of all the courses was to introduce students to the mathematical aspects of wave theory with a focus on the solution of some specific fundamental problems. These fundamental solutions would then serve as a basis for more complex wave propagation and scattering problems. Although the courses were taught in the mathematics department, the audience was mainly not mathematicians. It consisted of gradu­ ate science and engineering majors with a varied background in both mathematics and wave theory in general. I believed it was necessary to start from fundamental principles of both advanced applied mathematics as well as wave theory and to develop them both in some detail. The notes reflect this type of development, and I have kept this detail in the text. I believe it essential in technical careers to see this detailed development at least once. This volume consists of five chapters. The first two on Scalar Wave Theory (Chapter 1) and Green's Functions (Chapter 2) are mainly mathematical although in Chapter 1 the wave equation is derived from fundamental physical principles. More complicated problems involving spatially and even temporally varying media are briefly introduced.
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Scalar Wave Theory: Green's Functions and Applications

Scalar Wave Theory: Green's Functions and Applications

by John DeSanto
Scalar Wave Theory: Green's Functions and Applications

Scalar Wave Theory: Green's Functions and Applications

by John DeSanto

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This book comprises some of the lecture notes I developed for various one-or two-semester courses I taught at the Colorado School of Mines. The main objective of all the courses was to introduce students to the mathematical aspects of wave theory with a focus on the solution of some specific fundamental problems. These fundamental solutions would then serve as a basis for more complex wave propagation and scattering problems. Although the courses were taught in the mathematics department, the audience was mainly not mathematicians. It consisted of gradu­ ate science and engineering majors with a varied background in both mathematics and wave theory in general. I believed it was necessary to start from fundamental principles of both advanced applied mathematics as well as wave theory and to develop them both in some detail. The notes reflect this type of development, and I have kept this detail in the text. I believe it essential in technical careers to see this detailed development at least once. This volume consists of five chapters. The first two on Scalar Wave Theory (Chapter 1) and Green's Functions (Chapter 2) are mainly mathematical although in Chapter 1 the wave equation is derived from fundamental physical principles. More complicated problems involving spatially and even temporally varying media are briefly introduced.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783642847400
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 02/12/2012
Series: Springer Series on Wave Phenomena , #12
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Pages: 193
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

c2.- 4.6 Case 2: c1 < c2.- 4.7 Transmitted Field.- 4.A Steepest Descent Method.- 5. Two-Layered Liquid Half-Space (Pekeris Waveguide).- 5.1 Geometry and Notation.- 5.2 Green’s Function.- 5.3 Analytic Properties of G2.- 5.4 Normal Mode (NM)Representation.- 5.5 Fourier-Bessel Representation.- 5.6 Pseudo-proper Modes.- 5.7 Leaky Waves.- 5.8 Branch Line Integral (BLI).- 5.9 Virtual Modes.- 5.10 Modal Attenuation.- 5.A Proof of the Contour Representation.- References.
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