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This manuscript presents an efficient boundary integral equation technique for solving two-dimensional Helmholtz problems defined in the half-plane bounded by an infinite, periodic curve with Neumann boundary conditions and an aperiodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Riley Fisher , Fruzsina Agocs , Adrianna Gillman

The main task in this paper is to prove that the perfectly matched layers (PML) method converges exponentially with respect to the PML parameter, for scattering problems with periodic surfaces. In [5], a linear convergence is proved for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Ruming Zhang

In this paper we develop a class of efficient Galerkin boundary element methods for the solution of two-dimensional exterior single-scattering problems. Our approach is based upon construction of Galerkin approximation spaces confined to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Fatih Ecevit , Hasan Hüseyin Eruslu

We study the canonical problem of wave scattering by periodic arrays, either of infinite or finite extent, of Neumann scatterers in the plane; the characteristic lengthscale of the scatterers is considered small relative to the lattice…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Richard Wiltshaw , Richard V. Craster , Mehul P. Makwana

We present a Bloch modes' based Green's function scattering formalism for cost efficient forward modelling of disordered binary surface textures. The usage of Bloch modes of an unperturbed reference ordered system as ansatz allows our…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 A. Abass , A. Martins , S. Nanz , B. -H. V. Borges , E. R. Martins , C. Rockstuhl

We describe a numerical method for the solution of acoustic exterior scattering problems based on the time-domain boundary integral representation of the solution. As the spatial discretization of the resulting time-domain boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Ebraheem Aldahham , Lehel Banjai

Band formation in periodic media is a central topic in undergraduate solid-state physics, typically introduced through Bloch's theorem as an eigenvalue problem in reciprocal space for infinitely periodic systems. While mathematically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Nishant Kashyap , Amit Tanwar , Vivek T. Ramamoorthy , Pragati Ashdhir

We consider the numerical solution of the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves from an infinite periodic array of reflection or transmission obstacles in a homogeneous background medium, in two dimensions. Boundary integral formulations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Adrianna Gillman , Alex Barnett

In this paper, we consider the numerical solution of the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with a periodic lattice potential and a random external potential. This is an important model in solid state physics where the randomness is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Zhizhang Wu , Zhongyi Huang

This paper presents a numerical investigation of acoustic wave propagation in an obstacle with periodically time-modulated material parameters. We focus on the numerical construction of Floquet$-$Bloch solutions, which are quasi-periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Jörg Nick , Ralf Hiptmair , Habib Ammari

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

We present a new numerical method for accurate computations of solutions to (linear) one dimensional Schr\"odinger equations with periodic potentials. This is a prominent model in solid state physics where we also allow for perturbations by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-03 Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin , Peter Markowich , Christof Sparber

This paper is devoted to the mathematical analysis of a time-domain electromagnetic scattering by periodic structures which are known as diffraction gratings. The scattering problem is reduced equivalently into an initial-boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Yixian Gao , Peijun Li

The proposed numerical method, "FLAME-slab," solves electromagnetic wave scattering problems for aperiodic slab structures by exploiting short-range regularities in these structures. The computational procedure involves special difference…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-19 Shampy Mansha , Igor Tsukerman , Y. D. Chong

We are interested in numerically solving a transitional model derived from the Bloch model. The Bloch equation describes the time evolution of the density matrix of a quantum system forced by an electromagnetic wave. In a high frequency and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet , Clément Jourdana , Léopold Trémant

This work continues the development of the raytracing method of [1] for computing the scattered fields from metasurfaces characterized by locally periodic reflection and transmission coefficients. In this work, instead of describing the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Scott Stewart , Yvo L. C. de Jong , Tom J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

The scattering of quasiperiodic waves for a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with a constant refractive index perturbed by a function which is periodic in one direction and of finite support in the other is considered. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. de la Paz Méndez

This paper considers the imaging of local perturbations of an infinite penetrable periodic layer. A cell of this periodic layer consists of several bounded inhomogeneities situated in a known homogeneous media. We use \mfied{a differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Fioralba Cakoni , Houssem Haddar , Thi-Phong Nguyen

This paper addresses the reconstruction of periodic structures using phase or phaseless near-field measurements. We introduce a novel illumination strategy based on the quasi-periodic condition. Employing the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Jue Wang , Yujie Wang , Lei Zhang , Enxi Zheng

In this paper a mathematical model is given for the scattering of an incident wave from a surface covered with microscopic small Helmholtz resonators, which are cavities with small openings. More precisely, the surface is built upon a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Habib Ammari , Kthim Imeri