The motion and structure of dislocations in wavefronts

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1981.0149zbMath0486.76027OpenAlexW2162932022MaRDI QIDQ3947305

John Nye

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1981.0149

zbMATH Keywords

wavefront dislocationspulses of wavessingularities where phase is indeterminate and amplitude zerotrain of scalar waves scattered by fixed objects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

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