In the paper, diffraction problems of a plane wave by smooth, convex, and elongated bodies of revolution are considered within the framework of short-wave approximation (axially symmetric cases). The scattering amplitudes are calculated in the direction of limit rays, and the influence of the elongation of the scatterers on the amplitudes behavior is investigated. Mathematical techniques of our approach are based on the Green’s formulas in the exterior of the scatterers and numerical calculations of the wave field current in the boundary layers in the vicinity of the light-shadow zone. It is established that the elongation of axially symmetric bodies relatively weakly affects the scattering amplitudes of the short-wave asymptotics. The main contribution to the amplitudes is made by the solution of the 2D diffraction problem by a convex, smooth curve in the cross section of the scatterers by a plane containing the rotation axis.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 461, 2017, pp. 232–253.
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Popov, M.M., Semtchenok, N.M. Scattering Amplitudes in a Neighborhood of Limit Rays in Short-Wave Diffraction by Elongated Bodies of Revolution. J Math Sci 238, 715–730 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-019-04269-y
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