Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 1, Pages 85-89
doi:10.1155/S1110757X04306066

A note on point source diffraction by a wedge

A. D. Rawlins

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK

Received 18 June 2003

Copyright © 2004 A. D. Rawlins. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The object of this paper is to give new expressions for the wave field produced when a time harmonic point source is diffracted by a wedge with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on its faces. The representation of the total field is expressed in terms of quadratures of elementary functions, rather than Bessel functions, which is usual in the literature. An analogous expression is given for the three-dimensional free-space Green's function.