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Chaotic ray propagation in corrugated layers
1Environmental Department, Second University of Naples, via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta and CNISM, Italy
2Physics Department, University of Salerno, via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi Salerno and INFN -- Gruppo collegato di Salerno, Italy
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.
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Citation: Bottiglieri, M., De Martino, S., Falanga, M., and Godano, C.: Chaotic ray propagation in corrugated layers, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 12, 1003-1009, 2005. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
