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The scattering of electromagnetic pulses is described using a non-singular boundary integral method to solve directly for the field components in the frequency domain, and Fourier transform is then used to obtain the complete space-time…
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…
Fourier transform-based methods enable accurate, dispersion-free simulations of time-domain scattering problems by evaluating solutions to the Helmholtz equation at a discrete set of frequencies sufficient to approximate the inverse Fourier…
We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems. The main focus is on plane waves scattered by smoothly varying material inhomogeneities. The proposed method works for any frequency $\omega$, but…
In this paper we introduce a method for solving linear and nonlinear scattering problems for wave equations using a new hybrid approach. This new approach consists of a reformulation of the governing equations into a form that can be solved…
This paper proposes a frequency/time hybrid integral-equation method for the time dependent wave equation in two and three-dimensional spatial domains. Relying on Fourier Transformation in time, the method utilizes a fixed…
Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…
We propose and analyse a hybrid numerical-asymptotic $hp$ boundary element method for time-harmonic scattering of an incident plane wave by an arbitrary collinear array of sound-soft two-dimensional screens. Our method uses an approximation…
The problem of scattering of harmonic plane acoustic waves by fluid spheroids (prolate and oblate) is addressed from an analytical approach. Mathematically, it consists in solving the Helmholtz equation in an unbounded domain with…
The Helmholtz equation arises in the study of electromagnetic radiation, optics, acoustics, etc. In spherical coordinates, its general solution can be written as a spherical harmonic series which satisfies the radiation condition at…
We investigate integral formulations and fast algorithms for the steady-state radiative transfer equation with isotropic and anisotropic scattering. When the scattering term is a smooth convolution on the unit sphere, a model reduction step…
This paper presents a class of boundary integral equation methods for the numerical solution of acoustic and electromagnetic time-domain scattering problems in the presence of unbounded penetrable interfaces in two-spatial dimensions. The…
This article introduces a novel "bootstrap domain-of-dependence" concept, according to which, for all time following a given illumination period of arbitrary duration, the wave field scattered by an obstacle is encoded in the history of…
A Fourier transform method is introduced for a class of hybrid time-frequency methods that solve the acoustic scattering problem in regimes where the solution exhibits both highly oscillatory behavior and slow decay in time. This extends…
We show how to solve time-harmonic wave scattering problems on unbounded domains without truncation. The technique, first developed in numerical relativity for time-domain wave equations, maps the unbounded domain to a bounded domain and…
A global solution of the Schr\"odinger equation for explicitly time-dependent Hamiltonians is derived by integrating the non-linear differential equation associated with the time-dependent wave operator. A fast iterative solution method is…
In this paper, we present a fast boundary integral method accelerated by the fast multipole method (FMM) for acoustic wave scattering governed by the scalar Helmholtz equation in multi-layered two-dimensional media. Multiple scatterers are…
We apply boundary integral equations for the first time to the two-dimensional scattering of time-harmonic waves from a smooth obstacle embedded in a continuously-graded unbounded medium. In the case we solve the square of the wavenumber…
Consider the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic wave by multiple well separated rigid particles in two dimensions. To avoid using the complex Green's tensor of the elastic wave equation, we utilize the Helmholtz decomposition to convert…
A rarely exploited advantage of time-domain boundary integral equations compared to their frequency counterparts is that they can be used to treat certain nonlinear problems. In this work we investigate the scattering of acoustic waves by a…