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The solution of the wave equation in a polyhedral domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$ admits an asymptotic singular expansion in a neighborhood of the corners and edges. In this article we formulate boundary and screen problems for the wave equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Heiko Gimperlein , Fabian Meyer , Ceyhun Oezdemir , David Stark , Ernst P. Stephan

Rayleigh-Bloch waves are guided acoustic waves propagating along a periodic line of inclusions placed inside an open, infinite medium. Below the sound cone, they are transversely evanescent on both sides of the line of inclusions. Guidance…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Vincent Laude

High frequency limit for most of wave phenomena is known as quasiclassical limit or ray optics limit. Propagation of waves in this limit is described in terms of wave fronts and rays. Wave front is a surface of constant phase whose points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

In this paper we study the direct resonance problem for Rayleigh seismic surface waves and obtain a constraint on the location of resonances and establish a forbidden domain as the main result. In order to obtain the main result we make a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Samuele Sottile

The diffraction of a scalar plane wave from a doubly-periodic surface on which either the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition is imposed is studied by means of a rigorous numerical solution of the Rayleigh equation for the amplitudes of…

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

We construct pulse-type approximate solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic equations near diffractive points, allowing arbitrary (even infinite) order of grazing. We show that in low regularity spaces and the high frequency limit, such solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jian Wang , Mark Williams

Some relationships, fundamental to the resolution of interface wave problems, are presented. These equations allow for the derivation of explicit secular equations for problems involving waves localized near the plane boundary of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-24 Michel Destrade

Optical nanofibers provide a rich platform for exploring atomic and optical phenomena even when they support only a single spatial mode. Nanofibers supporting higher-order modes provide additional degrees of freedom to enable complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Jonathan E. Hoffman , Fredrik K. Fatemi , Guy Beadie , Steven L. Rolston , Luis A. Orozco

For general anisotropic linear elastic solids with smooth boundaries, Rayleigh-type surface waves are studied. Using spectral factorizations of matrix polynomials, a self-contained exposition of the case of a homogeneous half-space is given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-12 Sönke Hansen

We analyze the inverse spectral problem on the half line associated with elastic surface waves. Here, we extend the treatment of Love waves [arXiv: 1908.10529] to Rayleigh waves. Under certain conditions, and assuming that the Poisson ratio…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Maarten V. de Hoop , Alexei Iantchenko , Robert D. van der Hilst , Jian Zhai

The numerical analysis of elastic wave propagation in unbounded media may be difficult due to spurious waves reflected at the model artificial boundaries. This point is critical for the analysis of wave propagation in heterogeneous or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Jean-François Semblat , Luca Lenti , Ali Gandomzadeh

We study a 1D semilinear wave equation modeling the dynamic of an elastic string interacting with a rigid substrate through an adhesive layer. The constitutive law of the adhesive material is assumed elastic up to a finite critical state,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Giuseppe Florio , Marilena Ligabo' , Francesco Maddalena

When traditional linearised theory is used to study gravity-capillary waves produced by flow past an obstruction, the geometry of the object is assumed to be small in one or several of its dimensions. In order to preserve the nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Philippe H. Trinh , S. Jonathan Chapman

Two-dimensional nonlinear gravity waves travelling in shallow water on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity are considered. Using Euler equations, in the shallow water approximation, hyperbolic equations for the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Christian Kharif , Malek Abid

We consider wave propagation problems over 2-dimensional domains with piecewise-linear boundaries, possibly including scatterers. We assume that the wave speed is constant, and that the initial conditions and forcing terms are radially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Davide Pradovera , Monica Nonino , Ilaria Perugia

This research explores refined boundary conditions for a traction-free surface in a non-local micropolar half-space, combining non-local and micropolar elasticity effects to study Rayleigh wave propagation in an isotropic, homogeneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Manasa Bhat , Santanu Manna

The paper takles a procedure which allow to extend some linear, wave type equations to the study of nonlinear models. More concretely, we present a practical way to generate the largest class of a given form of second order differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Rodica Cimpoiasu , Radu Constantinescu

We study the two-dimensional problem of propagation of linear water waves in deep water in the presence of a submerged body. Under some geometrical requirements, we derive an explicit bound for the solution depending on the domain and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Ilia Kamotski , Vladimir Maz'ya

This work is devoted to the construction of weakly nonlinear, highly oscillating, current vortex sheet solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations. Current vortex sheets are piecewise smooth solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Olivier Pierre , Jean-François Coulombel