Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Aug 1973
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973rspta.274..523h&link_type=abstract
Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 274, Issue 1242
Physics
Optics
8
Scientific paper
This paper considers the theory of the multiple scattering of waves in extensive random media. The classical theory of wave propagation in random media is discussed with reference to its practical limitations, and in particular to the inability of the lowest order approximation to the Bethe-Salpeter equation, which describes the propagation of correlations, to account for conservation of energy. An alternative kinetic theory is formulated, based on the theory of energy transfer processes in random media. The proposed theory satisfies conservation of energy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It is illustrated by a consideration of three problems each of which is difficult or impossible to treat by classical scattering theory. These involve the transmission of energy through a slab of random medium; the scattering theory of geometrical optics; and scattering by a randomly inhomogeneous half-space.
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