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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454304703321

Autore

Field Timothy R

Titolo

Electromagnetic scattering from random media [[electronic resource] /] / Timothy R. Field

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-281-98545-7

9786611985455

0-19-154717-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

International series of monographs on physics ; ; 144

Disciplina

530.14/1

Soggetti

Stochastic processes

Random fields

Mathematical physics

Electromagnetic waves - Scattering

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I: STOCHASTIC CALCULUS; II: DYNAMICS OF THE SCATTERING PROCESS; III: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENT; A: Stability and infinite divisibility; B: Ito versus Stratonovich stochastic integrals; C: Filtrations, conditional probability, and Markov property; D: Girsanov's theorem; E: Partition function solution to BDI model; F: Summary of K-scattering; G: Iterative solution for vector processes; H: Open problems; I: Suggested further reading; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

- ;The book develops the dynamical theory of scattering from random media from first principles. Its key findings are to characterize the time evolution of the scattered field in terms of stochastic differential equations, and to illustrate this framework