Steepest-descent algorithm for simulating plasma-wave caustics via metaplectic geometrical optics.
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DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.025304
Abstract: The design and optimization of radiofrequency-wave systems for fusion applications is often performed using ray-tracing codes, which rely on the geometrical-optics (GO) approximation. However, GO fails at wave cutoffs and caustics. To accurately model the… read more here.
Keywords: algorithm; steepest descent; optics; geometrical optics ... See more keywords