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Formulas are derived for solutions of many-body wave scattering problems by small particles in the case of acoustically soft, hard, and impedance particles embedded in an inhomogeneous medium. The case of transmission (interface) boundary…

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In this paper, we present an approximate expression for determining the effective permittivity describing the coherent propagation of an electromagnetic wave in random media. Under the Quasicrystalline Coherent Potential Approximation…

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This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

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For any inhomogeneous compactly supported electromagnetic (EM) medium, it is shown that there exists an infinite set of linearly independent electromagnetic waves which generate nearly vanishing scattered wave fields. If the inhomogeneous…

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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.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-10 A. G. Ramm

An explicit formula is derived for the electromagnetic (EM) field scattered by one small impedance particle $D$ of an arbitrary shape. If $a$ is the characteristic size of the particle, $\lambda$ is the wavelength, $a<<\lambda$ and $\zeta$…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-03 Alexander G. Ramm

We consider the wave scattering and inverse scattering in an inhomogeneous medium embedded a homogeneous droplet with a small size, which is modeled by a constant mass density and a small bulk modulus. Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger…

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We study wave propagation phenomena modelled in the frequency domain by the Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media with focus on media with discontinuous, highly oscillating wave speed. We restrict to problems with spherical symmetry and…

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Electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by many parallel infinite cylinders is studied asymptotically as a tends to 0, where a is the radius of the cylinders. It is assumed that the centres of the cylinders are distributed so that their…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. G. Ramm , M. I. Andriychuk

We present a quantitative study of coherent array imaging of remote sources in randomly perturbed waveguides with bounded cross-section. We study how long range cumulative scattering by perturbations of the boundary and the medium impedes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Chrysoula Tsogka

For problems of time-harmonic scattering by polygonal obstacles, embedding formulae provide a useful means of computing the far-field coefficient induced by any incident plane wave, given the far-field coefficient of a relatively small set…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Andrew Gibbs , Stephen Langdon , Andrea Moiola

We study the effect of discrete symmetry breaking in inhomogeneous scattering media within the framework of generic wave propagation. Our focus is on one-dimensional scattering potentials exhibiting local symmetries. We find a class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 P. A. Kalozoumis , C. Morfonios , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

We present a general formalism describing a propagation of an arbitrary multiparticle wave packet in a one-dimensional multimode chiral channel coupled to an ensemble of emitters which are distributed at arbitrary positions. The formalism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Vladimir Gritsev

Wave scattering is considered in a medium in which many small particles are embedded. Equations for the effective field in the medium are derived when the number of particles tends to infinity.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm

Acoustic wave propagation in a fluid with a random assortment of identical cylindrical scatterers is considered. While the leading order correction to the effective wavenumber of the coherent wave is well established at dilute areal density…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-07 Andrew N. Norris , Jean-Marc Conoir

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

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A theoretical model to explain the scattering process of wave attenuation in a marginal ice zone is developed. Many field observations offer wave energy decay in the form of exponential function with distance, and this is justified through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-24 Takahito Iida , Atle Jensen

Propagation of P and SV waves in an elastic solid containing randomly distributed inclusions in a half-space is investigated. The approach is based on a multiple scattering analysis similar to the one proposed by Fikioris and Waterman for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-07 Jean-Marc Conoir , Andrew N. Norris

For over 70 years it has been assumed that scalar wave propagation in (ensemble-averaged) random particulate materials can be characterised by a single effective wavenumber. Here, however, we show that there exist many effective…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Artur Lewis Gower , William J. Parnell , Ian David Abrahams

Scattering processes are a fundamental way of experimentally probing distributions and properties of systems in several areas of physics. Considering two-body scattering at low energies, when the de Broglie wavelength is larger than the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Mathias Macêdo-Lima , Lucas Madeira