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Waves in excitable media can be treated by a simple geometric theory. The propagation velocity is assumed known and evolution of wave fronts is determined by elementary physical principles (Fermat's principle, Huygens' principle). Based on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristof Kaly-Kullai

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the Helmholtz equation in a wave-guide. We consider a medium that is bounded in the $x_2$-direction, unbounded in the $x_1$-direction and $\varepsilon$-periodic for large $|x_1|$, allowing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Tomáš Dohnal , Ben Schweizer

In this paper we consider an acoustic problem of wave propagation through a discontinuous medium. The problem is reduced to the dissipative wave equation with distributional dissipation. We show that this problem has a so-called very weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Juan Carlos Munoz , Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

We analyze the propagation properties of the numerical versions of one and two-dimensional wave equations, semi-discretized in space by finite difference schemes. We focus on high-frequency solutions whose propagation can be described, both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Umberto Biccari , Aurora Marica , Enrique Zuazua

We show that the lattice Boltzmann formalism can be used to describe wave propagation in a heterogeneous media, as well as solid-body-like systems and fracture propagation. Several fundamental properties of real fractures (such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bastien Chopard , Pascal Luthi , Stefan Marconi

Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems in the frequency domain within heterogeneous media poses significant mathematical and computational challenges, particularly in the high-frequency regime. Among the available numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Victorita Dolean , Mark Fry , Matthias Langer , Emile Parolin , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We apply expansion methods to obtain an approximate expression in terms of elementary functions for the space and time dependence of wave packets in a dispersive medium. The specific application to pulses in a cold plasma is considered in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Borge Nodland

We present a method for two-scale model derivation of the periodic homogenization of the one-dimensional wave equation in a bounded domain. It allows for analyzing the oscillations occurring on both microscopic and macroscopic scales. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-04 Thi Trang Nguyen , Michel Lenczner , Matthieu Brassart

A modelling of low-frequency sound propagation in slowly varying ducts with smoothly varying lining is proposed leading to an acoustic mild-slope equation analogue to the with mild-slope equation for water waves. This simple 1D Mild Slope…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-11 Maaz Farooqui , Yves Aurégan , Vincent Pagneux

An approximative method for solving the Bloch-Torrey equation in general porous media is presented. The method expand the boundaries defining the porous media using electrostatic charges. As a result the eigenvalue problem of the Laplace…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-29 Matias Nordin

The elucidation of many physical problems in science and engineering is subject to the accurate numerical modelling of complex wave propagation phenomena. Over the last decades, high-order numerical approximation for partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

In this paper we show how appropriate superpositions of Bessel beams can be successfully used to obtain arbitrary longitudinal intensity patterns of nondiffracting ultrasonic wavefields with very high transverse localization. More…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Jose' L. Prego , Michel Zamboni-Rached , Erasmo Recami , Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa

We will discuss a one-dimensional approximation for the problem of wave propagation in networks of thin fibers. The main objective here is to describe the boundary (gluing) conditions at branching points of the limiting one-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 S. Molchanov , B. Vainberg

We establish the well-posedness, the finite speed propagation, and a regularity result for Maxwell's equations in media consisting of dispersive (frequency dependent) metamaterials. Two typical examples for such metamaterials are materials…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Hoai-Minh Nguyen , Valentin Vinoles

A theoretical model is used to study water waves propagating into and through a region containing thin floating ice, for ice covers transitioning from consolidated (large floe sizes) to fully broken (small floe sizes). The degree of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-27 Jordan P. A Pitt , Luke G. Bennetts

We explore the propagation and transformation of electromagnetic waves through spatially homogeneous yet smoothly time-dependent media within the framework of classical electrodynamics. By modelling the smooth transition, occurring during a…

This paper deals with the numerical modeling of wave propagation in porous media described by Biot's theory. The viscous efforts between the fluid and the elastic skeleton are assumed to be a linear function of the relative velocity, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Guillaume Chiavassa , Bruno Lombard

A dispersion relation for gravity waves in water covered by disk-like impurities embedded in a viscous matrix is derived. The macroscopic equations are obtained by ensemble-averaging the fluid equations at the disk scale in the asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-20 Francesca De Santi , Piero Olla

Seismic tomography solves high-dimensional optimization problems to image subsurface structures of Earth. In this paper, we propose to use random batch methods to construct the gradient used for iterations in seismic tomography.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Yixiao Hu , Lihui Chai , Zhongyi Huang , Xu Yang

The paper presents an ab initio account of the paraxial complex geometrical optics (CGO) in application to a scalar Gaussian beam propagation and diffraction in a 3D smoothly inhomogeneous medium. The paraxial CGO deals with quadratic…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Berczynski , K. Yu. Bliokh , Yu. A. Kravtsov , A. Stateczny