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We demonstrate that it is possible to control a normal transonic shock to move periodically by adjusting the boundary conditions at the entrance or the exit of the tube, for which, the phenomena has been observed in engineering. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Xiaomin Zhang , Peng Qu , Huimin Yu

We study a question arising in inverse scattering theory: given a penetrable obstacle, does there exist an incident wave that does not scatter? We show that every penetrable obstacle with real-analytic boundary admits such an incident wave.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Mikko Salo , Henrik Shahgholian

This paper concerns the frequency domain problem of diffraction of a plane wave incident on an infinite right-angled wedge on which impedance (absorbing) boundary conditions are imposed. It is demonstrated that the exact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 David P. Hewett , Aaron Morris

The commonly applied self-similar solution of the problem of the converging shock wave (shock) evolution with constant compression of the medium behind the shock front results in an unlimited increase of the medium velocity in the vicinity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-15 Sergey G. Chefranov , Yakov E. Krasik , Alexander Rososhek

Starting with Maxwell's equations, we derive the fundamental results of the Huygens-Fresnel-Kirchhoff and Rayleigh-Sommerfeld theories of scalar diffraction and scattering. These results are then extended to cover the case of vector…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-16 Masud Mansuripur

Two frameworks that have been used to characterize reflected diffusions include stochastic differential equations with reflection and the so-called submartingale problem. We introduce a general formulation of the submartingale problem for…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Weining Kang , Kavita Ramanan

This paper introduces a novel wave front tracking framework for reconstructing unknown flux functions in $2\times 2$ hyperbolic conservation laws, extending beyond the well-studied scalar case. By analyzing Riemann solutions at fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chaohua Duan , Yan Jiang , Hongyu Liu , Wenjian Peng

In this paper we are concerned with the existence of transonic shocks for 2-D steady isothermal Euler flows in a horizontal flat nozzle under vertical gravity. In particular, we focus on the contribution of the vertical gravity in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Beixiang Fang , Xin Gao

In most classical fluids, shock waves are strongly dissipative, their energy being quickly lost through viscous damping. But in systems such as cold plasmas, superfluids, and Bose-Einstein condensates, where viscosity is negligible or…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wenjie Wan , Shu Jia , Jason W. Fleischer

Reflection of a normal incident matter wave by a perfectly reflecting wall moving with a constant velocity is investigated. A surprising phenomenon is found-that if the the wall moves faster than the phase velocity of the incident wave,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pi-Gang Luan , Yee-Mou Kao

Diffraction is one of the universal phenomena of physics, and a way to overcome it has always represented a challenge for physicists. In order to control diffraction, the study of structured waves has become decisive. Here, we present a…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-26 Miguel A. Bandres , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

A Neumann problem for a wave equation perturbed by viscous terms with small parameters is considered. The interaction of waves with the diffusion effects caused by a higher-order derivative with small coefficient {\epsilon}, is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Monica De Angelis

We consider the stability of transonic contact discontinuity for the two-dimensional steady compressible Euler flows in a finitely long nozzle. This is the first work on the mixed-type problem of transonic flows across a contact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Feimin Huang , Jie Kuang , Dehua Wang , Wei Xiang

This paper considers to the problems of diffraction of electromagnetic waves on a half-plane, which has a finite inclusion in the form of a Lipschitz curve. The diffraction problem formulated as boundary value problem for Helmholtz…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 E. Lipachev

High frequency limit for most of wave phenomena is known as quasiclassical limit or ray optics limit. Propagation of waves in this limit is described in terms of wave fronts and rays. Wave front is a surface of constant phase whose points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

We prove the existence of a solution to an 1-D free boundary problem which describes the propagation of disturbances of shock type, modeled by a non standard variational inequality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Gabriela Marinoschi

This paper is concerned with the inflow problem for the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. For such a problem, F. M. Huang, A. Matsumura and X. D. Shi showed that there exists viscous shock wave solution to the inflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Dongfen Bian , Lili Fan , Lin He , Huijiang Zhao

In this paper we study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a free-boundary problem modeling the phase transition of a material where the heat is transported by both conduction and radiation. Specifically, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Elena Demattè , Juan J. L. Velázquez

In the present work the linearized problem of plasma wave reflection from a boundary of a half--space is solved analytically. Specular accommodative conditions of plasma wave reflection from plasma boundary are taken into consideration.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. V. Gritsienko , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

We consider the long-time behavior of irrotational solutions of the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations with shocks, hypersurfaces of discontinuity across which the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions for irrotational flow hold. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Daniel Ginsberg , Igor Rodnianski