Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

This text, in a sense, continues the treatment of the earlier Volume 6 in the Springer Series on Wave Phenomena , titled Geometrical Optics of Inhomogenous Media , by analyzing caustics and their fields on the basis of modern catastrophe theory. This volume covers the key generalizations of geometrical optics related to caustic asymptotic expansions: The Lewis-Kravtsov method of standard functions; Maslov’s method of canoncial operators; Orlov’s method of interference integrals, as well as their modifications for penumbra, space-time, random and other types of caustics. All the methods are illustrated by worked problems concerning relevant wave-field applications.