Ray chaos and two‐dimensional wave fields

1996 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 2698-2698
Author(s):  
Yoh‐ichi Fujisaka ◽  
Mikio Tohyama ◽  
Akira Sugimura
Author(s):  
Jose C. Nieto-Borge ◽  
German Rodri´guez-Rodri´guez ◽  
Jose L. A´lvarez-Pe´rez ◽  
Francisco Lo´pez-Ferreras

This work uses stochastic simulations of linear and nonlinear two-dimensional wave fields to analyze some the statistical properties of the extreme wave crests for a given sea state. The studies carried out consider different spatial resolutions and extensions of the simulated sea state.


Author(s):  
Raphaël C. Assier ◽  
Andrey V. Shanin

Wave fields obeying the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation on branched surfaces (Sommerfeld surfaces) are studied. Such surfaces appear naturally as a result of applying the reflection method to diffraction problems with straight scatterers bearing ideal boundary conditions. This is for example the case for the classical canonical problems of diffraction by a half-line or a segment. In the present work, it is shown that such wave fields admit an analytical continuation into the domain of two complex coordinates. The branch sets of such continuation are given and studied in detail. For a generic scattering problem, it is shown that the set of all branches of the multi-valued analytical continuation of the field has a finite basis. Each basis function is expressed explicitly as a Green’s integral along so-called double-eight contours. The finite basis property is important in the context of coordinate equations, introduced and used by the authors previously, as illustrated in this article for the particular case of diffraction by a segment.


2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 1341-1351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Rabenstein ◽  
Peter Steffen ◽  
Sascha Spors

The two-dimensional wave diffraction problem, acoustic or electromagnetic, in which a pulse of step-function time dependence is diffracted by a resistive half-plane is solved by assuming dynamic similarity in the solution.


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