Wave Propagation and Time Reversal in Randomly Layered Media

• and Overview of the Book.- Waves in Homogeneous Media.- Waves in Layered Media.- Effective Properties of Randomly Layered Media.- Scaling Limits.- Asymptotics for Random Ordinary Differential Equations.- Transmission of Energy Through a Slab of Random Medium.- Wave-Front Propagation.- Statistics of Incoherent Waves.- Time Reversal in Reflection and Spectral Estimation.- Applications to Detection.- Time Reversal in Transmission.- Application to Communications.- Scattering by a Three-Dimensional Randomly Layered Medium.- Time Reversal in a Three-Dimensional Layered Medium.- Application to Echo-Mode Time Reversal.- Other Layered Media.- Other Regimes of Propagation.- The Random Schrödinger Model.- Propagation in Random Waveguides.

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