Waves in Layered Media

Waves in Layered Media focuses on the theory of the propagation of elastic and electromagnetic waves in layered media. This book presents a complete report of Soviet researches on wave propagation through layered media. Organized into six chapters, this book starts with an overview of the theory of wave reflection from layers and interfaces. This text then examines the some of the representations and methods, which are common to different branches of physics. Other chapters define the reflection reduction of optical waves as the lowering of the reflection coefficient at the air-glass boundaries by depositing thin layers of several materials on the glass. This book discusses as well the field of a concentrated source situated in a layered-inhomogeneous medium, which is one of the main problems in modern radiophysics, acoustics, and the physics of the Earth's crust. The final chapter deals with wave propagation in layered-inhomogeneous media. This book is a valuable resource for engineers, scientists, and physicists.

PrefaceTranslation Editor's PrefaceChapter I. Plane Waves in Layers 1. Plane Waves in Homogeneous Unbounded Media 2. Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves 3. The Reflection of a Plane Sound Wave at an Interface Separating Liquid and Gaseous Media 4. The Reflection of Waves at a Liquid-Solid Interface. Surface Waves 5. Reflection from a Plane Layer and from a System of Plane Layers 6. Elastic Waves in Solid Layered Media 7. Waves in Finely Layered Media 8. The Reflection of Bounded Beams 9. The Reflection of PulsesChapter II. Some Applications of the Theory of Plane Wave Propagation in Layered Media 10. The Reflection Reduction of Optical Systems 11. Interference Lightfilters 12. Layered Sound InsulatorsChapter III. Plane Waves in Layered-Inhomogeneous Media 13. Equations of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Fields in an Inhomogeneous Medium 14. Wave Reflection from an Inhomogeneous Layer of the Simplest Form 15. Wave Reflection from an Inhomogeneous Halfspace 16. Waves in an Arbitrary Layered Medium 17. The Reflection Coefficient at a Layer with an Arbitrary Law of Variation of ParametersChapter IV. Reflection and Refraction of Spherical Waves 18. Spherical Waves 19. The Reflection of a Spherical Wave at a Plane Interface 20. The Weyl-van der Pol Formula 21. Lateral Waves 22. The Field in the Region Close to the Angle of Total Internal Reflection 23. Refraction of Spherical Waves 24. Reflection and Refraction of a Spherical Wave at an Interface between Two Elastic MediaChapter V. Wave Propagation in Layers 25. A Layer with Perfectly Reflecting Boundaries 26. A Layer with Perfectly Reflecting Boundaries (Continued) 27. A Layer with Arbitrary Boundaries 28. Application of the Theory to the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Layers 29. The Propagation of Sound Waves in a Liquid Layer 30. Sound Propagation in a Triple-Layered Medium 31. The Propagation of a Sound Pulse in a Liquid Layer 32. Simplified Method for the Determination of the Characteristics of the Normal Modes 33. Averaged Decay Laws 34. Wave Propagation in a Layer Bounded by Inhomogeneous mediaChapter VI. The Field of a Concentrated Source in a Layered-Inhomogeneous Medium 35. Review of the Existing Solutions 36. General Expressions for the Field 37. Waveguides in Inhomogeneous Media 38. Ray Theory of Waveguide Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media 39. The Underwater Sound Channel 40. Long Distance Radiowave Propagation in the Atmosphere 41. Wave Propagation under Conditions of Shadow Zone FormationReferences I. Monographs and Textbooks II. Original WorksIndex