Comparison of Averaging Processes for Equivalent Fine Layered Media

P095 COMPARISON OF AVERAGING PROCESSES FOR EQUIVALENT FINE LAYERED MEDIA Abstract 1 Fine layered media can be treated in the long wavelength limit as an equivalent compound medium. The parameters of the replacement medium (compound parameters) can be seen as some kind of weighted average of the parameters of the constituents. Many authors have obtained analytic description of the parameters to be averaged and of the averaging process. In this paper we analyze the properties of the compound medium obtained with different averages over the same ensemble as indicated in Helbig (1994). Equivalent medium of an horizontally fine layered media