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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Approximate solutions to the wave equation for a medium with one discontinuity

Weiss, Winfried R. E. January 1983 (has links)
This thesis deals with a particle limit for the n dimensional wave equation and shows that there are asymptotic solutions for certain pulses in the high-frequency limit. These pulses are shown to propagate along rays predicted by geometrical optics. The solutions are computed up to an error which approaches zero as the pulse approaches the particle limit. The method gives a closed solution to the question of where the energy propagates. We assume that the n dimensional space is divided into two halfspaces with two different wave speeds and that these two halfspaces have an interface where the wave speed is not continuous. / M.S.

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