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Numerical Implementation of Huygens Principle for Scattering from a Smooth Ideal Surface

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In 1678 Huygens formulated a principle postulating that each point on a wave front acts as a point source emitting a spherical wave which travels with a local velocity. The field at a given point some time later is then the sum of the fields of each of these point sources [1]. In this article a numerical method is presented for 2D problems of sound propagation and scattering, conforming that physical assumptions.

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Maltsev, N.E. Numerical Implementation of Huygens Principle for Scattering from a Smooth Ideal Surface. Acoust. Phys. 65, 467–470 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771019050154

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