TY - JOUR TI - A caustic terminating at an inflection point Y1 - 2024/02/01/ AV - public N2 - We present an asymptotic and numerical study of the evolution of an incoming wavefield which has a caustic close to a curve with an inflection point. Our results reveal the emergence of a wavefield which resembles that of a shadow boundary but has a maximum amplitude along the tangent at the inflection point. ID - discovery10184848 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2023.103257 N1 - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ VL - 125 KW - Canonical scattering KW - Caustic KW - Popov inflection point problem KW - Stationary phase KW - Steepest descent PB - Elsevier BV JF - Wave Motion A1 - Ockendon, JR A1 - Ockendon, H A1 - Tew, RH A1 - Hewett, DP A1 - Gibbs, A ER -