The book is a complete, comprehensive description of the modern Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD) based upon the concept of elementary edge waves. The theory

This book is the first complete and comprehensive description of the modern Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD) based on the concept of elementary edge waves (

"This book includes in revised form materials from certain articles by the author and Chapters 1, 4, 6, and 7 of his book on PTD [Metod kraevykh voln v fiziches

This book details the ideas underlying geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD) along with its relationships with other EM theories.

Rigorous graduate-level text stresses modern applications to nonstructural problems such as temperature vibration effects, order-disorder phenomena, crystal imp