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Sound Scattering

NOV 01, 1950
Victor Twersky

The nonspecular or scattered reflection of sound by certain surfaces composed of planar distributions of either semicylindrical or hemispherical bosses small compared to wavelength (“scattering reflectors”) is treated by extending the exact eigenfunction solutions obtained for the problem of the single boss on an infinite plane and a plane wave at an arbitrary angle of incidence.

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