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66/2001

A note on flows towards reflectors

Oliver Schnürer

Abstract

A classical problem in geometric optics is to find surfaces that reflect light from a given light source such that a prescribed intensity on a target is realized. We introduce a flow equation for surfaces such that they converge to solutions of this reflector problem both for closed hypersurfaces and for the illumination of prescribed domains.

Received:
Sep 25, 2001
Published:
Sep 25, 2001
MSC Codes:
35K15, 35K20, 49Q10, 58J35, 78A05
Keywords:
antenna, geometric optics, parabolic monge-ampére equation, 2nd boundary value problem

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