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Phase-space beam summation analysis of rough surface waveguide.

Goren Gordon1, Ehud Heyman, Reuven Mazar

  • 1Department of Physical Electronics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|May 19, 2005
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This study introduces a Gaussian beam summation formulation for waveguides with rough boundaries. It models how waves scatter, offering a new way to understand and calculate complex wave behavior in such environments.

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Area of Science:

  • Waveguide theory
  • Electromagnetics
  • Acoustics
  • Computational physics

Background:

  • Wave propagation in waveguides with rough boundaries is complex due to scattering.
  • Existing models often struggle to accurately capture both coherent and incoherent scattered fields.
  • Understanding multiple scattering phenomena is crucial for various applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel Gaussian beam summation (GBS) formulation for doubly rough boundary waveguides.
  • To provide a unified framework for analyzing coherent and incoherent scattered fields.
  • To offer a physically interpretable and mathematically effective representation of stochastic multiple scattering.

Main Methods:

  • Decomposition of scattered fields into Gaussian beams (GBs).

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  • Utilizing deterministic GB propagators and stochastic GB-to-GB (GB2GB) scattering matrices.
  • Calculating GB2GB matrices from statistical moments of the scattering amplitude (analytical or empirical).

    • Main Results:

    • The GBS formulation explicitly reveals the phase-space footprint of stochastic multiple scattering.
    • An analytical and numerical example for weak boundary roughness is presented and validated.
    • The method effectively accommodates receiver patterns within the phase-space framework.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed GBS formulation offers a powerful tool for analyzing wave phenomena in rough boundary waveguides.
    • It provides both physical insight and an effective mathematical representation of complex scattering processes.
    • The method is demonstrated through an examination of bistatic reverberations in a rough surface waveguide.