Wavefronts And Rays As Characteristics And Asymptotics
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A01=Andrej Bona
A01=Michael A Slawinski
Asymptotic Approximation
Author_Andrej Bona
Author_Michael A Slawinski
Category=PHD
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Hamiltonian
High Frequency
Ray Theory
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- ISBN 9789814295512
- Publication Date: 13 May 2011
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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This textbook — incorporated with many illuminating examples and exercises — is aimed at graduate students of physical sciences and engineering. The purpose is to provide a background of physics and underlying mathematics for the concept of rays, filling the gap between mathematics and physics textbooks for a coherent treatment of all topics. The authors' emphasis and extremely good presentation of the theory of characteristics, which defines the rays, accentuate the beauty and versatility of this theory. To this end, the rigour of the formulation — by a pure mathematician's standards — is downplayed to highlight the physical meaning and to make the subject accessible to a wider audience. The authors describe in detail the theory of characteristics for different types of differential equations, the applications to wave propagation in different types of media, and the phenomena such as caustics.
