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We consider the wave scattering and inverse scattering in an inhomogeneous medium embedded a homogeneous droplet with a small size, which is modeled by a constant mass density and a small bulk modulus. Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Zhe Wang , Ahcene Ghandriche , Jijun Liu

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

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic description of high-frequency waves in locally periodic media. A key issue is that the Bloch-dispersion curves vary with the local microstructure, giving rise to hidden singularities associated…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-13 Ory Schnitzer

This paper concerns the stability on the inverse source scattering problem for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in a two-layered medium. We show that the increasing stability can be achieved by using multi-frequency wave field at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Yue Zhao , Peijun Li

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

In this paper we present and analyse a high accuracy method for computing wave directions defined in the geometrical optics ansatz of Helmholtz equation with variable wave number. Then we define an "adaptive" plane wave space with small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Qiya Hu , Zezhong Wang

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the time-domain electromagnetic scattering problem in an infinite rectangular waveguide. A transparent boundary condition is developed to reformulate the problem into an equivalent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Yanli Chen , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

This paper is concerned with developing efficient numerical methods for acoustic wave scattering in random media which can be expressed as random perturbations of homogeneous media. We first analyze the random Helmholtz problem by deriving…

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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Alex. H. Barnett , Bradley J. Nelson , J. Matthew Mahoney

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Youngae Han

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

In this paper, we consider the scattering of a plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in three dimensions. Based on the Helmholtz decomposition, the elastic scattering problem is reduced to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

Motivated by the study and simulation of long, coiled optical fibers we consider in this article a simplified model that is prevalent in the engineering community. Mathematically, the problem is specified as follows: Time-harmonic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Leszek Demkowicz , Martin Halla , Jens Markus Melenk

Analytic representation formulas and power series are developed describing the band structure inside periodic photonic and acoustic crystals made from high contrast inclusions. Central to this approach is the identification and utilization…

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This paper gives a note on an application of the enclosure method to an inverse obstacle scattering problem governed by the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. It is shown that one can uniquely determine the convex hull of an unknown…

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

In this paper, we focus on a new wave equation described wave propagation in the attenuation medium. In the first part of this paper, based on the time-domain space fractional wave equation, we formulate the frequency-domain equation named…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Junxiong Jia , Shigang Yu , Jigen Peng , Jinghuai Gao

We study optical Bloch oscillations in the one- and two-dimensional arrays of helical waveguides with transverse refractive index gradient. Longitudinal rotation of waveguides may lead to notable variations of the width of the band of…

The multiple scattering formalism is proposed describing the guided modes in the optical waveguide array within the framework of macroscopic electrodynamics. It is shown that, under sufficiently general assumptions, our approach justifies…

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