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An investigation into the use of the method of spherical currents for the determination of scattered wave fields

In this thesis an approximation method, the method of spherical currents, is advanced for the determination of scattered fields (acoustic and electromagnetic) from convex bodies for plane harmonic incident waves. The method is worked out for the scalar (acoustic) case and applied to sound soft and sound hard obstacles of a given shape. The surface fields and backscattering cross sections of these obstacles are calculated according to the method and the results are compared with those of other methods. For the vector (electromagnetic) case only the basic theory is worked out for a perfectly conducting convex body.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/18249
Date January 1976
CreatorsDu Plessis, N M
ContributorsBrundrit, Geoff
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Thesis, Doctoral, PhD
Formatapplication/pdf

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