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Pulse diffraction by an imperfectly reflecting wedge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

V. M. Papadopoulos
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Abstract

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A similarity method is used to develop a solution of the wave equation within a sector with mixed boundary conditions. In this manner the field which results from the diffraction of an incident pulse of step function time dependence is found.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1961

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