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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Bin Han , Jiwoon Sim

The problem of scattering of harmonic plane acoustic waves by fluid spheroids (prolate and oblate) is addressed from an analytical approach. Mathematically, it consists in solving the Helmholtz equation in an unbounded domain with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Juan D. González , Edmundo F. Lavia , Silvia Blanc

We introduce a technique to decompose the scattered near field of two-dimensional arbitrary metaatoms into its multipole contributions. To this end we expand the scattered field upon plane wave illumination into cylindrical harmonics as…

The disturbance of the transmission of light through a diffusive medium due to an object hidden in it can be expressed in terms of an effective charge and dipole moment. In the mesoscopic regime, beyond the diffusion approximation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 David Lancaster , Theo Nieuwenhuizen

Consider the scattering of an acoustic plane wave by a bounded elastic obstacle which is immersed in an open space filled with a homogeneous medium. This paper concerns the mathematical analysis of the coupled two- and three-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Peijun Li , Lei Zhang

Based on the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique, this paper develops a high-accuracy boundary integral equation (BIE) solver for acoustic scattering problems in locally defected layered media in both two and three dimensions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Wangtao Lu , Liwei Xu , Tao Yin , Lu Zhang

Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by one and many small ($ka\ll 1$) impedance particles $D_m$ of an arbitrary shape, embedded in a homogeneous medium, is studied. Analytic formula for the field, scattered by one particle, is derived.…

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We present a stochastic description of multiple scattering of polarized waves in the regime of forward scattering. In this regime, if the source is polarized, polarization survives along a few transport mean free paths, making it possible…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-19 Jérémie Boulanger , Nicolas le Bihan , Vincent Rossetto

Efficient numerical solution of the acoustic Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media remains challenging, particularly for large-scale problems with spatially-varying density - a limitation that restricts applications in biomedical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Antonio Stanziola , Simon R. Arridge , Bradley E. Treeby , Benjamin T. Cox

To design a uniaxial anisotropic metamaterial a layered cylindrical metamaterial is introduced for TE polarization. Unlike to the previous work, which the layers were in radial direction, here the layers are in azimuthal direction.…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 M. R. Forouzeshfard , Masoud Mohebbi , Aliyeh Mollaei

A primary challenge in developing synthetic spatial hearing systems, particularly underwater, is accurately modeling sound scattering. Biological organisms achieve 3D spatial hearing by exploiting sound scattering off their bodies to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siminfar Samakoush Galougah , Pranav Pulijala , Ramani Duraiswami

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang , Jiaqing Yang

The demand for inverse design is increasing as the ability to fabricate sub-10 nm features expands the design space by orders of magnitude. Efficient inverse design benefits from differentiable models of light-structure interaction. While…

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

A problem of monoenergetic particles pulse reflection from half-infinite stratified medium is considered in conditions of elastic scattering with absorbtion account. The theory is based on multiple scattering series solution of Kolmogorov…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-15 Sergey Leble , Alexei Buzdin

In this paper, we study the inverse electromagnetic medium scattering problem of estimating the support and shape of medium scatterers from scattered electric or magnetic near-field data. We shall develop a novel direct sampling method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Kazufumi Ito , Bangti Jin , Jun Zou

Analytical solutions to acoustic scattering problems involving nonspherical shapes, such as spheroids and disks, have long been known and have many applications. However, these solutions require special functions that are not easily…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Ross Adelman , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

A thin infinitely long elastic shell is stiffened by $J$ in number identical lengthwise ribs distributed uniformly around the circumference and joined to a rod in the center. The 2D model of the substructure is a rigid central mass…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Alexey S. Titovich , Andrew N. Norris

Scattering by an isolated defect embedded in a dielectric medium of two dimensional periodicity is of interest in many sub-fields of electrodynamics. Present approaches to compute this scattering rely either on the Born approximation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Kuljit S. Virk