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The subject of diffraction of waves by sharp boundaries has been studied intensively for well over a century, initiated by groundbreaking mathematicians and physicists including Sommerfeld, Macdonald and Poincar\'e. The significance of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Matthew A. Nethercote , Raphael C. Assier , I. David Abrahams

We consider the inverse source problem of a fixed wavenumber: study properties of an acoustic source based on a single far- or near-field measurement. We show that nonradiating sources having a convex or non-convex corner or edge on their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Eemeli Blåsten

A formula for the wavefront of a wave reflected from a diffraction grating with an arbitrary surface profile, as well as with arbitrary non-equidistant and non-parallel grooves was obtained. It was shown that the wavefront of the reflected…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-25 Efim Khazanov

Consider the two-dimensional inverse elastic wave scattering by an infinite rough surface with a Dirichlet boundary condition. A non-interative sampling technique is proposed for detecting the rough surface by taking elastic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Tielei Zhu , Jiaqing Yang

Consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering from a bounded penetrable obstacle $D\subset \mathbb R^N$ embedded in a homogeneous background medium. The index of refraction characterizing the material inside $D$ is supposed to be H\"older…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Guanghui Hu , Mikko Salo , Esa V. Vesalainen

This paper is concerned with uniqueness in inverse acoustic scattering with phaseless far-field data at a fixed frequency. The main difficulty of this problem is the so-called translation invariance property of the modulus of the far-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

In this paper, we will study increasing stability in the inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in the plane when the source term is assumed to be compactly supported in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with sufficiently smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Mozhgan Nora Entekhabi , Victor Isakov

We consider the two-dimensional time-harmonic transmission problem for an impedance-matched (\rho = 1) right-angle penetrable wedge at refractive index ratio \nu = \sqrt{2}, in the integrable lemniscatic configuration (\theta_w ,\nu,\rho) =…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Jonas Matuzas

Electromagnetic wave is reflected and refracted at interfaces, satisfying Fresnel-Snell law which is required by conservations of energy and momentum. If the incident angle is lower than the critical angle, we can use this Fresnel-Snell…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-30 Daigo Oue

Consider the time-harmonic acoustic scattering from a bounded penetrable obstacle imbedded in an isotropic homogeneous medium. The obstacle is supposed to possess a circular conic point or an edge point on the boundary in three dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Johannes Elschner , Guanghui Hu

An occulter is a large diffracting screen which may be flown in conjunction with a telescope to image extrasolar planets. The edge is shaped to minimize the diffracted light in a region beyond the occulter, and a telescope may be placed in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-30 E. Cady

A problem of diffraction of a symmetrical transverse magnetic mode $ \text{TM}_{0l} $ by an open-ended cylindrical waveguide corrugated inside is considered. A depth and a period of corrugations are supposed to be much less than the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Sergey N. Galyamin , Aleksandra A. Grigoreva

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 general method to obtain solutions of the Maxwellian equations from scalar representatives is developed and applied to the diffraction of electromagnetic waves. Kirchhoff's integral is modified to provide explicit expressions for these…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ulrich Brosa

A simple inverse problem for the wave equation requires determination of both the wave velocity in a homogenous acoustic material and the transient waveform of an isotropic point radiator, given the time history of the wavefield at a remote…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 William W. Symes

We consider the fundamental solution to the wave equation on a manifold with corners of arbitrary codimension. If the initial pole of the solution is appropriately situated, we show that the singularities which are diffracted by the corners…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-09 Richard Melrose , Andras Vasy , Jared Wunsch

Consider the incidence of a time-harmonic electromagnetic plane wave onto a biperiodic dielectric grating, where the surface is assumed to be a small and smooth perturbation of a plane. The diffraction is modeled as a transmission problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Xue Jiang , Peijun Li

A rigorous approach for solving canonical circular open-ended dielectric-lined waveguide diffraction problems is presented. This is continuation of our recent paper [1] where a simpler case of uniform dielectric filling has been considered.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Sergey N. Galyamin , Viktor V. Vorobev

We present an analytical and numerical investigation of double-slit diffraction under coherent illumination by three plane waves: one normally incident and two symmetrically angled at plus/minus theta. By imposing an edge-zero condition on…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 J. Sumaya-Martinez , MA Ortiz-Ferreyro , O. Rojas-Hernandez

An exact solution is obtained for the electromagnetic field due to an electric current in the presence of a surface conductivity model of graphene. The graphene is represented by an infinitesimally-thin, local and isotropic two-sided…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 George W. Hanson