DIFFRACTION OF A PLANE WAVE BY A PARABOLOID OF REVOLUTION.

Abstract

Diffraction problems involving periodic plane waves incident upon a material body have been treated in detail for a large variety of shapes. The paraboloid of revolution, however, has apparently been neglected in the literature. It is the purpose of the present thesis to carry out an investigation of this general problem. The specific problems considered are the diffraction of a plane sound wave by a paraboloid of revolution, the diffraction of an electromagnetic plane wave by a perfectly conducting paraboloid of revolution, and the diffraction of an electromagnetic plane wave by a dielectric paraboloid of revolution. The first and second problems are considered in some detail, but the third, due to complexity of the results, is carried only to the point where the boundary conditions can be found.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1950
Accession Number
AD0634758

Entities

People

  • F. C. Karal

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Boundaries
  • Diffraction
  • Lepidoptera
  • Literature
  • Materials
  • Plane Waves
  • Revolutions
  • Sound Waves
  • Waves

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.