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Six exact solutions are obtained in the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity related to spatially homogeneous wave-like models of the Universe. Wave-like space-time models allow the existence of privileged coordinate systems where the…
A new idea for iterative solution of the Helmholtz equation is presented. We show that the iteration which we denote WaveHoltz and which filters the solution to the wave equation with harmonic data evolved over one period, corresponds to a…
In \cite{Lei}, the author derived an exact rotation-strain model in two dimensions for the motion of incompressible viscoelastic materials via the polar decomposition of the deformation tensor. Based on the rotation-strain model, the author…
A particular mix of integral equations and discretization techniques is suggested for the solution of a planar Helmholtz transmission problem with relevance to the study of surface plasmon waves. The transmission problem describes the…
We study numerically the dispersion and dissipation properties of the plane wave virtual element method and the nonconforming Trefftz virtual element method for the Helmholtz problem. Whereas the former method is based on a conforming…
Based on the microscopic Maxwell equations, we develop a method of description of the electric field in a spontaneously polarized isotropic nonpolar dielectric. We find the solution for the electric field $\textbf{E}(\textbf{r})$ for…
Superpositions of plane waves are known to approximate well the solutions of the Helmholtz equation. Their use in discretizations is typical of Trefftz methods for Helmholtz problems, aiming to achieve high accuracy with a small number of…
We consider the decomposition of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces in terms of functions forming frames. Similar to the singular-value decomposition, the resulting frame decompositions encode information on the structure and…
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…
We consider the solution of a scalar Helmholtz equation where the potential (or index) takes two positive values, one inside a ball of radius $\eps$ and another one outside. In this short paper, we report that the results recently obtained…
We consider the vector wave equation on the Schwarzschild spacetime, which can be considered as coming from the harmonic (or Lorenz) gauge fixed Maxwell equations. After a separation of variables, the radial mode equations form a…
Vector spherical wavefunctions were derived in closed-form to represent time-harmonic electromagnetic fields in an orthorhombic dielectric-magnetic material with gyrotropic-like magnetoelectric properties. These wavefunctions were used to…
In cosmological perturbation theory it is convenient to use the scalar, vector, tensor (SVT) basis as defined according to how these components transform under 3-dimensional rotations. In attempting to solve the fluctuation equations that…
In this work, we obtain the Helmholtz decomposition for vector fields in Morrey, Zorko, and block spaces over bounded or exterior $C^{1}$ domains. Generally speaking, our proofs rely on a careful interplay of localization, flattening, and…
Maxwell equations are solved in a layer comprising a finite number of homogeneous isotropic dielectric regions ended by anisotropic perfectly matched layers (PMLs). The boundary-value problem is solved and the dispersion relation inside the…
The separation of acoustic and vortical fluctuations in compressible turbulence becomes ambiguous in thermodynamically inhomogeneous media, where refraction by entropy gradients and shocks can be misclassified as solenoidal content by…
Integral representation results are obtained for the relaxation of some classes of energy functionals depending on two vector fields with different behaviors, which may appear in the context of image decomposition and thermochemical…
Three problems for a discrete analogue of the Helmholtz equation are studied analytically using the plane wave decomposition and the Sommerfeld integral approach. They are: 1) the problem with a point source on an entire plane; 2) the…
The paper aims at proposing an efficient and stable quasi-interpolation based method for numerically computing the Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition of a vector field. To this end, we first explicitly construct a matrix kernel in a general form…