The Young principle and integration-masked lumped sources of a diffracted field

Abstract

A methodologically simple modification of the Young principle is proposed for describing diffracted field formation in problems of wave diffraction by the sharp edges of screens and wedges without using Sommerfeld’s two-sheeted space. The method of determining the diffracted field constructs the derivative of the field by introducing lumped sources positioned at given scattering edges with subsequent integration of the constructed field along the directions parallel to the wave fronts of the incident plane wave.