Propagation of radiation in time-dependent three-dimensional random media

Autor: Mark J. Beran, Alan M. Whitman, Shimshon Frankenthal, Venkatesh Deshmukh
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Waves in Random and Complex Media. 18:435-460
ISSN: 1745-5049
1745-5030
DOI: 10.1080/17455030802078429
Popis: In Ref. [1] (Appendix A) we derived equations governing the frequency and spatial spectrum of radiation propagating in three-dimensional time-dependent random media with randomly varying sound speed c ( x , t). From the spectral equations we determine equations for the energy flux in both the forward and backward directions. We consider media that are spatially homogeneous and isotropic and stationary in time. In order to allow an independence assumption the analysis is restricted to fluctuations that satisfy the conditions τμ ≫ L z /c 0 and τμ ≪ L FS/c 0 where τμ is the characteristic time of the fluctuations, k 0 is the mean radiation wavenumber, L z is the characteristic correlation length of the random fluctuations in the mean propagation direction and L FS is a mean scattering length. We consider various values of γ = (k 0 L z )2/2. When γ ≪ 1 we find the usual radiation transfer equations. When γ ≫ 1, but back-scattering can be neglected, we find the forward-scattering equations. We also consider γ ...
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