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This paper proposes a new Helmholtz decomposition based windowed Green function (HD-WGF) method for solving the time-harmonic elastic scattering problems on a half-space with Dirichlet boundary conditions in both 2D and 3D. The Helmholtz…

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The acoustic scattering problem is modeled by the exterior Helmholtz equation, which is challenging to solve due to both the unboundedness of the domain and the high dispersion error, known as the pollution effect. We develop high-order…

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In this paper, we consider a sorting scheme for potentially spurious scattering resonant pairs in one- and two-dimensional electromagnetic problems and in three-dimensional acoustic problems. The novel sorting scheme is based on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Juan Carlos Araujo Cabarcas , Christian Engström

This paper develops a finite-difference analogue of the boundary integral/element method for the numerical solution of two-dimensional exterior scattering from scatterers of arbitrary shapes. The discrete fundamental solution, known as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Siyuan Wang , Qing Xia

The transport of charged particles or photons in a scattering medium can be modelled with a Boltzmann equation. The mathematical treatment for scattering in such scenarios is often simplified if evaluated in a frame where the scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Nils W. Schween , Brian Reville

A discretization scheme for variable coefficient Helmholtz problems on two-dimensional domains is presented. The scheme is based on high-order spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The resulting system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-20 P. G. Martinsson

Standard solvers for the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation in two spatial dimensions have running times which grow quadratically with the wavenumber $k$. Here, we describe a solver which applies only when the scattering potential is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 James Bremer

The Helmholtz equation with variable wavenumbers is challenging to solve numerically due to the pollution effect, which often results in a huge ill-conditioned linear system. In this paper, we present a high-order wavelet Galerkin method to…

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Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lehel Banjai , Christian Lubich , Joerg Nick

The present work describes some extensions of an approach, originally developed by V.V. Yatsyk and the author, for the theoretical and numerical analysis of scattering and radiation effects on infinite plates with cubically polarized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Lutz Angermann

In this paper, we present a fast boundary integral method accelerated by the fast multipole method (FMM) for acoustic wave scattering governed by the scalar Helmholtz equation in multi-layered two-dimensional media. Multiple scatterers are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Linfeng Xia , Heng Yuan , Bo Wang , Wei Cai

We propose a hybrid approach to solve the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with point source terms in smooth heterogeneous media. The method is based on the ray-based finite element method (ray-FEM), whose original version can not handle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Jun Fang , Jianliang Qian , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Hongkai Zhao

We study 4 problems in the area of scattering of time harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves by unbounded rough surfaces/inhomogeneous layers. Specifically we study: i) a boundary value problem (BVP) for the Helmholtz equation, in both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Thomas Baden-Riess

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for determining unknown scatterers, which is governed by the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain. To address this, we develop a novel convex data-fitting formulation that is capable of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Sarah Eberle-Blick , Bastian Harrach , Xianchao Wang

Recently, reduced order modeling methods have been applied to solving inverse boundary value problems arising in frequency domain scattering theory. A key step in projection-based reduced order model methods is the use of a sesquilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Andreas Tataris , Alexander V. Mamonov

We obtain a nonperturbative, analytical solution to integral equation of scattering theory by assuming the field within the scattering object is a spherical wave with a scattering amplitude equal to that of the far field. This approximation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Brian Slovick , Srini Krishnamurthy

Inverse scattering has a broad applicability in quantum mechanics, remote sensing, geophysical, and medical imaging. This paper presents a robust direct reduced order model (ROM) method for solving inverse scattering problems based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Justin Baker , Elena Cherkaev , Vladimir Druskin , Shari Moskow , Mikhail Zaslavsky

In this study, we investigate atom--dimer scattering within the framework of the hyperspherical method. The coupled channel Schr\"odinger equation is solved using the R-matrix propagation technique combined with the smooth variable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Cai-Yun Zhao , Yi Zhang , Hui-Li Han , Ting-Yun Shi

We consider the numerical solution of high-frequency scattering problems modeled by the Helmholtz equation with a bounded obstacle. Although the analysis of this problem dates back at least 50 years, over the past decade or so, tools and…

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