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A theoretical platform is developed for active elastic-wave sensing of (stationary and advancing) fractures along bi-material interfaces in layered composites. Damaged contact surfaces are characterized by a heterogeneous distribution of…

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Space-time varying media enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic waves, yet most existing studies assume idealized, nondispersive materials and thus fail to capture the intrinsic frequency dispersion of realistic platforms. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic description of high-frequency waves in locally periodic media. A key issue is that the Bloch-dispersion curves vary with the local microstructure, giving rise to hidden singularities associated…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-13 Ory Schnitzer

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We consider the numerical algorithm for the two-dimensional time-harmonic elastic wave scattering by unbounded rough surfaces with Dirichlet boundary condition. A Nystr\"{o}m method is proposed for the scattering problem based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-06 Jianliang Li , Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Wave propagation and scattering problems in acoustics are often solved with boundary element methods. They lead to a discretization matrix that is typically dense and large: its size and condition number grow with increasing frequency. Yet,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

This paper is concerned with inverse scattering problems of determining the support of an isotropic and homogeneous penetrable body from knowledge of multi-static far-field patterns in acoustics and in linear elasticity. The normal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Chun Liu , Guanghui Hu , Jianli Xiang , Jiayi Zhang

Direct numerical simulation of diffusion through heterogeneous media can be difficult due to the computational cost of resolving fine-scale heterogeneities. One method to overcome this difficulty is to homogenize the model by replacing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Nathan G. March , Elliot J. Carr , Ian W. Turner

An efficient direct solver for solving the Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation modeling acoustic scattering in the plane is presented. For a problem with $N$ degrees of freedom, the solver constructs an approximate inverse in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Abinand Gopal , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

The spectral/hp element method combines the geometric flexibility of the classical h-type finite element technique with the desirable numerical properties of spectral methods, employing high-degree piecewise polynomial basis functions on…

Fourier transform-based methods enable accurate, dispersion-free simulations of time-domain scattering problems by evaluating solutions to the Helmholtz equation at a discrete set of frequencies sufficient to approximate the inverse Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Oscar P. Bruno , Manuel A. Santana

In this paper, we investigate wave scattering by a pair of closely spaced inclusions embedded in a homogeneous medium, characterized by a high contrast physical parameters. The system is modeled by the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Hongjie Dong , Hongjie Li , Longjuan Xu

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by heterogeneous media consisting of linear or nonlinear point scatterers and extended obstacles. A generalized Foldy-Lax formulation is developed to take fully into account of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Jun Lai , Ming Li , Peijun Li , Wei Li

In this paper, we present a multiscale framework for solving the Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media without scale separation and in the high frequency regime where the wavenumber $k$ can be large. The main innovation is that our…

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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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This paper is concerned with the analysis of elastic wave scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a biperiodic rigid surface, where the wave propagation is governed by the three-dimensional Navier equation. An exact transparent boundary…

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Sound scattering by a finite width beam on a single rigid body rotation vortex flow is detected by a linear array of transducers (both smaller than a flow cell), and analyzed using a revised scattering theory. Both the phase and amplitude…

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Coherent wave control exploits the interference among multiple waves impinging on a system to suppress or enhance outgoing signals based on their relative phase and amplitude. This process inherently requires non-Hermiticity, in order to…

This manuscript presents an efficient boundary integral equation technique for solving two-dimensional Helmholtz problems defined in the half-plane bounded by an infinite, periodic curve with Neumann boundary conditions and an aperiodic…

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