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We develop a model for the reflection and transmission of plane waves by an isotropic layer sandwiched between two uniaxial crystals of arbitrary orientation. In the laboratory frame, reflection and transmission coefficients corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-29 Erik S. Thomson , Larry A. Wilen , John S. Wettlaufer

Inertial waves in fluid regions of planets and stars play an important role in their dynamics and evolution, through energy, heat and angular momentum transport and mixing of chemicals. While inertial wave propagation in flows prescribed by…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Lennart Kira , Jerome Noir , Daniel Lecoanet

The reflections caused by common semi-reflectors, such as glass windows, can impact the performance of computer vision algorithms. State-of-the-art methods can remove reflections on synthetic data and in controlled scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Patrick Wieschollek , Orazio Gallo , Jinwei Gu , Jan Kautz

In this work we consider the method of non-linear boundary integral equation for solving numerically the inverse scattering problem of obliquely incident electromagnetic waves by a penetrable homogeneous cylinder in three dimensions. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Drossos Gintides , Leonidas Mindrinos

We compute rest-frame reflection spectra and the corresponding energy-dependent linear polarization degree and angle for (un)polarized single-temperature blackbody spectra impinging on a partially ionized constant-density optically thick…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 J. Podgorný , M. Dovčiak , R. Goosmann , F. Marin , L. Marra , G. Matt , A. Różańska , R. Taverna

This paper deals with the solution of an inverse problem for the heat equation aimed at nondestructive evaluation of fractures. A fundamental step in any typical iterative inversion method, is the numerical solution of the underlying direct…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 G. Inglese , R. Olmi , A. Scalbi

In this paper we consider the geodesic X-ray transform with attenuation coefficient as a combination of smooth complex function and 1-form. We show that attenuated X-ray transform applied to the pair of tensors is injective modulo the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Yernat M. Assylbekov

This paper provides an analysis of the linearized inverse problem in multifrequency electrical impedance tomography. We consider an isotropic conductivity distribution with a finite number of unknown inclusions with different frequency…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Giovanni S. Alberti , Habib Ammari , Bangti Jin , Jin-Keun Seo , Wenlong Zhang

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear integral eigenvalue problem, which is a reformulation of the transmission eigenvalue problem arising in the inverse scattering theory. The boundary element method is employed for discretization, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Fang Zeng , Jiguang Sun , Liwei Xu

Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Caroline Jane Spindel , Edward Knightly

The X-ray transform on the plane or on the three-dimensional Euclidean space can be considered as the measurements of CT scanners for normal human tissue. If the human body contains metal regions such as dental implants, stents in blood…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Hiroyuki Chihara

We present an approach for the study and design of reflectors with rotational or translational symmetry that redirect light from a point source into any desired radiant intensity distribution. This method is based on a simple conformal map…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-04 Luis A. Aleman Castaneda , Miguel A. Alonso

This paper is devoted to a Radon-type transform arising in Photoacoustic Tomography that uses integrating line detectors. We consider two situations: when the line detectors are tangent to the boundary of a cylindrical domain and when the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Sunghwan Moon

Context. The numerical modeling of the generation and transfer of polarized radiation is a key task in solar and stellar physics research and has led to a relevant class of discrete problems that can be reframed as linear systems. In order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Gioele Janett , Pietro Benedusi , Luca Belluzzi , Rolf Krause

In the linear approximation, we study a one-dimensional problem of the reflectionless wave propagation on a surface of a shallow duct with the spatially varying water depth, duct width, and current. We show that both global and bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-08 Semyon Churilov , Yury Stepanyants

This is a continuation of two recent publications of the authors about reconstruction procedures for 3-d phaseless inverse scattering problems. The main novelty of this paper is that the Born approximation for the case of the wave-like…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Michael V. Klibanov , Vladimir G. Romanov

We motivate then formulate a novel variant of the near-field reflector problem and call it the near-field reflector problem with spatial restrictions. Let $O$ be an anisotropic point source of light and assume that we are given a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dylanger Pittman

Reciprocal transformations mix the role of the dependent and independent variables of (nonlinear partial) differential equations to achieve simpler versions or even linearized versions of them. These transformations help in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 P. Albares , P. G. Estévez , C. Sardón

We present a novel analysis of a Radon transform, $R$, which maps an $L^2$ function of compact support to its integrals over smooth surfaces of revolution with centers on an embedded hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Using microlocal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 James W. Webber , Sean Holman , Eric Todd Quinto

We consider the imaging of cosmic strings by using Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data. Mathematically, we study the inversion of an X-ray transform in Lorentzian geometry, called the light ray transform. The inverse problem is highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Julianne Chung , Lucas Onisk , Yiran Wang