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Efficient numerical solution of the acoustic Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media remains challenging, particularly for large-scale problems with spatially-varying density - a limitation that restricts applications in biomedical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Antonio Stanziola , Simon R. Arridge , Bradley E. Treeby , Benjamin T. Cox

Analytical methods are fundamental in studying acoustics problems. One of the important tools is the Wiener-Hopf method, which can be used to solve many canonical problems with sharp transitions in boundary conditions on a plane/plate.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Matthew Nethercote , Anastasia Kisil , Raphael Assier

This paper proposes a frequency-time hybrid solver for the time-dependent wave equation in two-dimensional interior spatial domains. The approach relies on four main elements, namely, 1) A multiple scattering strategy that decomposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Oscar P. Bruno , Tao Yin

We present algorithms for solving high-frequency acoustic scattering problems in complex domains. The eikonal and transport partial differential equations from the WKB/geometric optic approximation of the Helmholtz equation are solved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Samuel F. Potter , Maria K. Cameron , Ramani Duraiswami

Standard solvers for the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation in two spatial dimensions have running times which grow quadratically with the wavenumber $k$. Here, we describe a solver which applies only when the scattering potential is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 James Bremer

An integral formulation for acoustic radiation in moving flows is presented. It is based on a potential formulation for acoustic radiation on weakly non-uniform subsonic mean flows. This work is motivated by the absence of suitable kernels…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-13 Simone Mancini , R. Jeremy Astley , Samuel Sinayoko , Gwenael Gabard , Michel Tournour

Motivated by research in metamaterials, we consider the challenging problem of acoustic wave scattering by a doubly periodic quadrant of sound-soft scatterers arranged in a square formation, which we have dubbed the quarter lattice. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Matthew Nethercote , Anastasia Kisil , Raphael Assier

The Helmholtz equation in one dimension, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves in effectively one-dimensional systems, is equivalent to the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The fact that the potential term…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

It is known that the Jost-function formulation of quantum scattering theory can be applied to classical problems concerned with the scattering of a plane scalar wave by a medium with a spherically symmetric inhomogeneity of finite extent.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 Umaporn Nuntaplook , John A Adam

We present a general construction of semiglobal scattering solutions to quasilinear wave equations in a neighbourhood of spacelike infinity including past and future null infinity, where the scattering data are posed on an ingoing null cone…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Istvan Kadar , Lionor Kehrberger

A new algorithm for the stable solution of a three-dimensional scalar inverse problem of acoustic sounding of an inhomogeneous medium in a cylindrical region is proposed. The data of the problem is the complex amplitude of the wave field,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Anatoly B. Bakushinsky , Alexander S. Leonov

We consider the two-dimensional high-frequency plane wave scattering problem in the exterior of a finite collection of disjoint, compact, smooth, strictly convex obstacles with Neumann boundary conditions. Using integral equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Yassine Boubendir , Fatih Ecevit

The interaction between radiation and superconductors is explored in this paper. In particular, the calculation of a plane standing wave scattered by an infinite cylindrical superconductor is performed by solving the Helmholtz equation in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-23 Miguel C. N. Fiolhais , Hanno Essén

This paper discusses a fast direct solver using boundary integral equations for Helmholtz transmission problems involving multiple inclusions in two dimensions. Efficiently addressing scattering problems in the presence of numerous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yasuhiro Matsumoto

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine a rigid obstacle from time domain scattered field data for a single incident plane wave. By using Helmholtz decomposition, we reduce the initial-boundary value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Lu Zhao , Heping Dong , Fuming Ma

Stemming from the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld surface integral, the addition theorems for the spherical wave and Legendre functions, and a weighing function describing the behavior of the radial component of the normal velocity at the surface of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 F. G. Mitri

A rigorous reduction of the many-body wave scattering problem to solving a linear algebraic system is given bypassing solving the usual system of integral equation. The limiting case of infinitely many small particles embedded into a medium…

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

An efficient direct solver for solving the Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation modeling acoustic scattering in the plane is presented. For a problem with $N$ degrees of freedom, the solver constructs an approximate inverse in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Abinand Gopal , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Solving the wave equation is essential to seismic imaging and inversion. The numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation, fundamental to this process, often encounters significant computational and memory challenges. We propose an…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinquan Huang , Tariq Alkhalifah

This paper introduces a novel boundary integral approach of shape uncertainty quantification for the Helmholtz scattering problem in the framework of the so-called parametric method. The key idea is to construct an integration grid whose…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Yuval Harness