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In this chapter we will take up the study of the wave equations in one dimension and study the propagation of the wave in a region with inhomogeneous properties of refractive index by analyzing the reflection and transmission functions for the region. In the previous chapter we studied these functions in the context of particle transport. Similar studies carry over in the case of wave propagation. An order of scattering analysis of the emergent and internal solutions leads to Bremmer series [1] solutions under certain conditions.
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Bellman, R., Vasudevan, R. (1986). Application to the Wave Equation. In: Wave Propagation. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5227-0_4
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