Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-12-1003-2005
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21 Nov 2005
21 Nov 2005
Chaotic ray propagation in corrugated layers
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to study the effects of a corrugated wall on the behaviour of propagating rays. Different types of corrugation are considered, using different distributions of the corrugation heights: white Gaussian, power law, self-affine perturbation. In phase space, a prevalent chaotic behaviour of rays, and the presence of a lot of caustics, are observed. These results entail that the KAM theorem is not fulfilled.
