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This paper gives a remark on the Enclosure Method by considering inverse obstacle scattering problems with a single incident wave whose governing equation is given by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is concerned with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

A method to compute the scattering solutions of a spinless Salpeter equation (or a Schrodinger equation) with a central interaction is presented. This method relies on the 3-dimensional Fourier grid Hamiltonian method used to compute bound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabian Brau , Claude Semay

We present a numerical method for the solution of diffusion problems in unbounded planar regions with complex geometries of absorbing and reflecting bodies. Our numerical method applies the Laplace transform to the parabolic problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Jesse Cherry , Alan E. Lindsay , Bryan D. Quaife

This paper presents a mixed basis approach for Laplace eigenvalue problems, which treats the boundary as a perturbation of the free Laplace operator. The method separates the boundary from the volume via a generic function that can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-09-07 Matias Nordin , Martin Nilsson-Jacobi , Magnus Nydén

When modeling propagation and scattering phenomena using integral equations discretized by the boundary element method, it is common practice to approximate the boundary of the scatterer with a mesh comprising elements of size approximately…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-13 V. Giunzioni , A. Merlini , F. P. Andriulli

Many boundary element integral equation kernels are based on the Green's functions of the Laplace and Helmholtz equations in three dimensions. These include, for example, the Laplace, Helmholtz, elasticity, Stokes, and Maxwell's equations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Ross Adelman , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

In this paper, an efficient iterative method is proposed for solving multiple scattering problem in locally inhomogeneous media. The key idea is to enclose the inhomogeneity of the media by well separated artificial boundaries and then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Ziqing Xie , Rui Zhang , Bo Wang , Li-lian Wang

In this article, we study the inverse scattering problem for the nonlinear fractional Helmholtz equation with cubic nonlinearity in three dimensions, where we recover a compactly supported potential from scattering amplitude.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Saumyajit Das , Susovan Pramanik

This paper proposes a new boundary integral equation (BIE) methodology based on the perfectly matched layer (PML) truncation technique for solving the electromagnetic scattering problems in a multi-layered medium. Instead of using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Gang Bao , Wangtao Lu , Tao Yin , Lu Zhang

Based on the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique, this paper develops a high-accuracy boundary integral equation (BIE) solver for acoustic scattering problems in locally defected layered media in both two and three dimensions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Wangtao Lu , Liwei Xu , Tao Yin , Lu Zhang

We consider three common mathematical models for time-harmonic high frequency scattering: the Helmholtz equation in two and three spatial dimensions, a transverse magnetic problem in two dimensions, and Maxwell's equation in three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 T. Chaumont-Frelet , S. Sauter

This paper presents a robust numerical solution to the electromagnetic scattering problem involving multiple multi-layered cavities in both transverse magnetic and electric polarizations. A transparent boundary condition is introduced at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

A major challenge of many diffraction calculations, using some form of the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulas, is the integration of a highly oscillatory integrand. Here we derive a potentially useful alternative form of solution to the Helmholtz…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-04 Daniel J. Merthe

Due to its highly oscillating solution, the Helmholtz equation is numerically challenging to solve. To obtain a reasonable solution, a mesh size that is much smaller than the reciprocal of the wavenumber is typically required (known as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michelle Michelle

We explain how to use smooth bivariate splines of arbitrary degree to solve the exterior Helmholtz equation based on a Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) technique. In a previous study (cf. [26]), it was shown that bivariate spline functions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Shelvean Kapita , Ming Jun Lai

This paper is concerned with boundary integral equation methods for solving the two-dimensional fluid-solid interaction problem. We reduce the problem to three differential systems of boundary integral equations via direct and indirect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Tao Yin , George C. Hsiao , Liwei Xu

Most finite element methods for solving time-harmonic wave-propagation problems lead to a linear system with a non-normal coefficient matrix. The non-normality is due to boundary conditions and losses. One way to solve these systems is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-01 Antti Hannukainen

The boundary element method (BEM) is an efficient numerical method for simulating harmonic wave propagation. It uses boundary integral formulations of the Helmholtz equation at the interfaces of piecewise homogeneous domains. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Elwin van 't Wout , Seyyed R. Haqshenas , Pierre Gélat , Timo Betcke , Nader Saffari

In this work the Lippmann-Schwinger equation is used to model seismic waves in strongly scattering acoustic media. We consider the Helmholtz equation, which is the scalar wave equation in the frequency domain with constant density and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Kjersti Solberg Eikrem , Geir Nævdal , Morten Jakobsen