New Aspects of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave Diffusion

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: POAN Research Group/Groupement de Recherche POAN (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 144
• Subjects: Acoustics.; Condensed matter.; Condensed Matter Physics.

Multiple scattering of waves is a rapidly growing field with many applications. The research group "Propagation of Waves in Disordered and/or Nonlinear Media" POAN brought together experts from different disciplines to write this review which covers applied mathematics, optics, acoustics,...

Table of Contents:

• Multiple scattering of light
• Optical medical diagnostics and imaging
• Effective-medium and coherent-potential approximation
• Acoustic and ultrasonic propagation
• Lidar
• Applied mathematics
• Seismology.