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Average intensity of multiply scattered waves

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The methods of the theory of multiple wave scattering are applied to a calculation of the mean intensity of radiation above a jagged rough surface under conditions such that shadowing and scattering form an intricate multipath structure on the part of the scalar field. The multiple wave scattering is described in the Twersky approximation, and a relationship of the given problem to the radiative transfer problem in an infinite plane-parallel layer is indicated. Expressions are derived for the coherent and incoherent components of the intensity at interior points of the layer, and the dependence of the mean value of the total intensity on the distance, radiation wavelength, and other parameters of the problem is analyzed.

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  1. V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Scientific-Research Institute, Tomsk State University, USSR

    G. A. Ponomarev

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 85–90, May, 1984.

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Ponomarev, G.A. Average intensity of multiply scattered waves. Soviet Physics Journal 27, 425–429 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898616

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