CHARACTERISTIC WAVE CATALOGUING FOR RAY PATH DETERMINATION.

Abstract

Wave cataloguing suitable for ray tracing of a pulsed wave packet in a weakly-dissipative, horizontallystratified magnetoionic medium is described, Particular attention is devoted to the cataloguing of the various characteristic waves so that the influence of the local ionization density and collision frequency can be understood. The procedure presented is applicable under general incident conditions and complex refractive index surfaces. The Booker quartic equation is used to derive the unambiguous wave normals and wave identification is obtained from the dispersion equation. A modified CMA. diagram including collisions is illustrated. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0623646

Entities

People

  • Sameul Horowitz
  • Yuji Inoue

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Collisions
  • Differential Equations
  • Dispersions
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Identification
  • Ionization
  • Mathematics
  • Quartic Equations
  • Ray Tracing
  • Refractive Index
  • Wave Packets

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Systems Analysis and Design