• Presents groundbreaking advances in determining diffraction from various canonical scatterers
• Develops the mathematics of canonical structures in potential theory and solves mixed boundary potential problems for structures with cavities and edges
• Studies diffraction of acoustic and electromagnetic waves from open structures with edges and cavities
• Uses the Abel integral transform and the method of Regularization to present a unified treatment of potential theory and diffraction
• Describes many applications of real physical and engineering significance and provides physical interpretation of explicit mathematical solutions

Although the analysis of scattering for closed bodies of simple geometric shape is well developed, structures with edges, cavities, or inclusions have seemed, until now, intractable to analytical methods. This two-volume set describes a breakthrough in analytical techniques for accurately determining diffraction from classes of canonical scatterers with comprising edges and other complex cavity features. It is an authoritative account of mathematical developments over the last two decades that provides benchmarks against which solutions obtained by numerical methods can be verified.

The first volume, Canonical Structures in Potential Theory, develops the mathematics, solving mixed boundary potential problems for structures with cavities and edges. The second volume, Acoustic and Electromagnetic Diffraction by Canonical Structures, examines the diffraction of acoustic and electromagnetic waves from several classes of open structures with edges or cavities. Together these volumes present an authoritative and unified treatment of potential theory and diffraction-the first complete description quantifying the scattering mechanisms in complex structures.