Diffuse Waves in Complex Media: 531 (Nato Science Series C:, 531) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792356802 ISBN 13: 9780792356806

Publisher: Springer, 1999

Synopsis

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Diffuse Waves in Complex Media was held at the "Centre de Physique des Houches" in France from March 17 to 27, 1998. The Schools' scientific content, wave propagation in heterogeneous me­ dia, has covered many areas of fundamental and applied research. On the one hand, the understanding of wave propagation has considerably improved during the last thirty years. New developments and concepts such as, speckle correlations, weak and strong localization, time reversal, near-field propagation are under active research. On the other hand, wave propagation in random media is now being investigated in many different fields such as applied mathematics, acoustics, optics, atomic physics, geo­ physics or medical sciences. Each community often uses its own langage to describe the same phenomena. The aim of the School was to gather worldwide specialists to illuminate various aspects of wave propagation in random media. This volume presents fourteen expository articles corresponding to courses and seminars given during the School. They are arranged as follows. The first three articles deal with the phenomena of localization of waves: B. van Tiggelen (p. 1) gives a critical review of the physics of localization, J. Lacroix (p. 61) presents the mathematical theory and A. Klein (p. 73) describes recent results for randomized periodic media.

About this title

Synopsis

There is a great deal of current research into wave propagation in random media, in such fields as applied mathematics, acoustics, optics, materials science, atomic physics and geophysics. This book provides accurate theoretical and practical introductions at research level to topics such as: localization of waves, band gap materials, random matrices, dielectric media, laser cooled atoms, wave scattering from rough surfaces, randomly layered media, seismic waves and imaging the earth.

About the Author

Jean-Pierre Fouque studied at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. He held positions at the French CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, and at North Carolina State University. Since 2006, he has been Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Financial Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792356802
• ISBN 13: 9780792356806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 470
• Editor: Fouque Jean-Pierre