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A particular mix of integral equations and discretization techniques is suggested for the solution of a planar Helmholtz transmission problem with relevance to the study of surface plasmon waves. The transmission problem describes the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Johan Helsing , Anders Karlsson

We present a boundary integral formulation of electromagnetic scattering by homogeneous bodies that are characterized by linear constitutive equations in the frequency domain. By working with the Cartesian components of the electric, E and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Qiang Sun , Evert Klaseboer , Derek Y. C. Chan

Typically the use of the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction formula as a photon propagator is widely accepted due to the abundant experimental evidence that suggests that it works. However, a direct link between the propagation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Elkin A. Santos , Ferney Castro , Rafael Torres

This paper considers large-scale simulations of wave propagation phenomena. We argue that it is possible to accurately compute a wavefield by decomposing it onto a largely incomplete set of eigenfunctions of the Helmholtz operator, chosen…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Laurent Demanet , Gabriel Peyré

Equality-constrained models naturally arise in problems in which measurements are taken at different levels of resolution. The challenge in this setting is that the models usually induce a joint distribution which is intractable. Resorting…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-28 Shenggang Hu , Hongsheng Dai , Fanlin Meng , Louis Aslett , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

The well-known "Sommerfeld radiation problem" of a small -Hertzian- vertical dipole above flat lossy ground is reconsidered. The problem is examined in the spectral domain, through which it is proved to yield relatively simple integral…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Seil Sautbekov , Sotiris Bourgiotis , Ariadni Chrysostomou , Panayiotis Frangos

A finite element-based modal formulation of diffraction of a plane wave by an absorbing photonic crystal slab of arbitrary geometry is developed for photovoltaic applications. The semi-analytic approach allows efficient and accurate…

In this paper, we discuss how the concepts of Hamiltonian optics are internally connected to the scalar wave theory of light rays. It is shown that the solutions of the reduced wave equation are similar to Huygen's wavelets, and they can be…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Kolahal Bhattacharya

A variety of problems in acoustic and electromagnetic scattering require the evaluation of impedance or layered media Green's functions. Given a point source located in an unbounded half-space or an infinitely extended layer, Sommerfeld and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Jun Lai , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil

Exact solutions describing the Rayleigh-Bloch waves for the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation are constructed in the case when the refractive index is a sum of a constant and a small amplitude function which is periodic in one direction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 A. Merzon , P. Zhevandrov , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. De la Paz Méndez

This paper is concerned with the cavity scattering problem in an infinite thin plate, where the out-of-plane displacement is governed by the two-dimensional biharmonic wave equation. Based on an operator splitting, the scattering problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Heping Dong , Peijun Li

A method for solving the half-space Sommerfeld problem is proposed, which allows us to obtain exact solutions in the form of Sommerfeld integrals, as well as their short-wave asymptotics. The first carried out by reducing the Sommerfeld…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Seil Sautbekov

We consider the numerical integration of the matrix Hill's equation. Parametric resonances can appear and this property is of great interest in many different physical applications. Usually, the Hill's equations originate from a Hamiltonian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Philipp Bader , Sergio Blanes , Enrique Ponsoda , Muaz Seydaoğlu

We consider the Helmholtz equation defined in unbounded domains, external to 2D bounded ones, endowed with a Dirichlet condition on the boundary and the Sommerfeld radiation condition at infinity. To solve it, we reduce the infinite region,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Luca Desiderio , Silvia Falletta , Matteo Ferrari , Letizia Scuderi

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

In this paper, we use the theory of symmetric Dirichlet forms to give a probabilistic interpretation of Calder\'{o}n's inverse conductivity problem in terms of reflecting diffusion processes and their corresponding boundary trace processes.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Petteri Piiroinen , Martin Simon

Sampling theory concerns the problem of reconstruction of functions from the knowledge of their values at some discrete set of points. In this paper we derive an orthogonal sampling theory and associated Lagrange interpolation formulae from…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Luis O. Silva , Julio H. Toloza

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of recovering a doubly periodic Lipschitz structure through the measurement of the scattered field above the structure produced by point sources lying above the structure. The medium above the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Guanghui Hu , Bo Zhang

We consider the inverse scattering problem for inhomogeneous media of compact support governed by the fractional s-Helmholtz equation, with $0<s<1$, in dimensions $d=1,2,3$. In particular, we study the determination of the support of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Dana Zilberberg

This paper presents smoothed combined field integral equations for the solution of Dirichlet and Neumann exterior Helmholtz problems. The integral equations introduced in this paper are smooth in the sense that they only involve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Carlos Pérez-Arancibia