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A discretization scheme for variable coefficient elliptic PDEs in the plane is presented. The scheme is based on high-order Gaussian quadratures and is designed for problems with smooth solutions, such as scattering problems involving soft…
In the present paper we describe a simple black box algorithm for efficiently and accurately solving scattering problems related to the scattering of time-harmonic waves from radially-symmetric potentials in two dimensions. The method uses…
A 3D singular integral equation is derived for electromagnetic wave scattering by bodies of arbitrary shape. Its numerical solution by a projection method is outlined.
We consider a novel way of discretizing wave scattering problems using the general formalism of convolution quadrature, but instead of reducing the timestep size ($h$-method), we achieve accuracy by increasing the order of the method…
We present a new integral equation method for the calculation of two-dimensional scattering from periodic structures involving triple-points (multiple materials meeting at a single point). The combination of a robust and high-order accurate…
In three dimensional scattering, the energy continuum wavefunction is obtained by utilizing two independent solutions of the reference wave equation. One of them is typically singular (usually, near the origin of configuration space). Both…
The transfer matrix formalism is widely used in modeling heat diffusion in layered structures.Due to an intrinsic numerical instability issue, which has not yet drawn enough attention to the heat transfer community,this formalism fails at…
We develop a method for numerical time-domain wave propagation based on the model order reduction approach. The method is built with high-performance computing (HPC) implementation in mind that implies a high level of parallelism and…
We develop an efficient numerical scheme for the 3D mean-field spherical dynamo equation. The scheme is based on a semi-implicit discretization in time and a spectral method in space based on the divergence-free spherical harmonic…
A numerical solution to the problem of wave scattering by many small particles is studied under the assumption k<<1, d>>a, where a is the size of the particles and d is the distance between the neighboring particles. Impedance boundary…
We discuss the electromagnetic scattering and radiation problems of multilayered spheres, reviewing the history of the Lorentz-Mie theory and the numerical stability issues encountered in handling multilayered spheres. By combining…
A rigorous method of calculating the electromagnetic field, the scattering matrix, and scattering cross-sections of an arbitrary finite three-dimensional optical system described by its permittivity distribution is presented. The method is…
Mie theory is a powerful method to model electromagnetic scattering from a multilayered sphere. Usually, the incident beam is expanded to its vector spherical harmonic representation defined by beam shape coefficients, and the multilayer…
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…
We present in this paper a spectrally accurate numerical method for computing the spherical/vector spherical harmonic expansion of a function/vector field with given (elemental) nodal values on a spherical surface. Built upon suitable…
We develop a transfer-matrix formulation of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a general isotropic medium which makes use of a notion of electromagnetic transfer matrix $\mathbf{M}$ that does not involve slicing of the scattering…
In this paper, we propose an efficient quadratic interpolation formula utilizing solution gradients computed and stored at nodes and demonstrate its application to a third-order cell-centered finite-volume discretization on tetrahedral…
This chapter is a pedagogical review of methods and results for studying wave propagation in one-dimensional complex structures. We describe and compare the tight-binding, scattering matrix, transfer matrix and Riccati formalisms. We…
Immersed boundary methods have attracted substantial interest in the last decades due to their potential for computations involving complex geometries. Often these cannot be efficiently discretized using boundary-fitted finite elements.…
In this paper we introduce a new fix point iteration scheme for solving nonlinear electromagnetic scattering problems. The method is based on a spectral formulation of Maxwell's equations called the Bidirectional Pulse Propagation…