High Frequency and Pulse Scattering

Contributors

Preface


1 Geometrical and Catastrophe Optics Methods in Scattering


1. Introduction and Overview


2. Introduction to Geometrical and Physical Optics Methods Relevant to Scattering


3. Caustics and Associated Diffraction Catastrophes


4. Waves Transmitted Through Fluid and Elastic Scatterers and Glory Scattering


5. Surface Ray Representations of Scattering by Shells and Other Smooth Objects

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Polar and Cartesian Expressions for Principal

Curvatures

References


2 Scattering of Sound Pulses and the Ringing of Target Resonances


1. Introduction


2. Theory of the Scattering of Sound Pulses from Impenetrable Objects


3. Theory of the Scattering of Sound Pulses from Elastic Objects


4. Early Experiments with Sound Pulses Scattered by Elastic Objects


5. Target Resonances and The Singularity Expansion Method


6. Theory of Surface Wave Pulses, the Ringing of Resonances, and the Determination of the Eigenfrequency Spectrum of Elastic Scatterers


7. Development and Use of Experimental Methods

References

Subject Index

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