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Based on the work of Nuttall and Cohen [Phys. Rev. {\bf 188} (1969) 1542] and Resigno et al{} [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 55} (1997) 4253] we present a rigorous formalism for solving the scattering problem for long-range interactions without using…

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Much like their counterparts in homogenous elastic solids, waves in periodic media can be broadly classified into Floquet-Bloch body waves, and evanescent surface waves. Our goal is to elucidate the latter boundary layers, termed surface…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Bojan B. Guzina , Shixu Meng , Prasanna Salasiya , Long Nguyen

Under conditions of strong scattering, a dilemma often arises regarding the best numerical method to use. Main competitors are the Born series, the Beam Propagation Method, and direct solution of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. However,…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-19 Subeen Pang , George Barbastathis

We implement the Numerical Unified Transform Method to solve the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half-line. For so-called linearizable boundary conditions, the method solves the half-line problems with comparable complexity as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Xin Yang , Bernard Deconinck , Thomas Trogdon

We consider the 2D quasi-periodic scattering problem in optics, which has been modelled by a boundary value problem governed by Helmholtz equation with transparent boundary conditions. A spectral collocation method and a tensor product…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Kui Du

In many Direct and Inverse Scattering problems one has to use a parameter-fitting procedure, because analytical inversion procedures are often not available. In this paper a variety of such methods is presented with a discussion of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Ramm , Semion Gutman

We propose a novel iterative numerical method to solve the three-dimensional inverse obstacle scattering problem of recovering the shape of the obstacle from far-field measurements. To address the inherent ill-posed nature of the inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Junqing Chen , Bangti Jin , Haibo Liu

Some novel numerical approaches to solving direct and inverse obstacle scattering problems (IOSP) are presented. Scattering by finite obstacles and by periodic structures is considered. The emphasis for solving direct scattering problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Ramm , Semion Gutman

We introduce an arbitrary order, computationally efficient method to smooth corners on curves in the plane, as well as edges and vertices on surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. The method is local, only modifying the original surface in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Charles L. Epstein , Michael O'Neil

We propose a procedure for computing the direct scattering transform of the periodic sine-Gordon equation. This procedure, previously used within the periodic Korteweg-de Vries equation framework, is implemented for the case of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-08 Filip Novkoski , Eric Falcon , Chi-Tuong Pham

In this article, we prove the convergence of a semi-discrete numerical method applied to a general class of nonlocal nonlinear wave equations where the nonlocality is introduced through the convolution operator in space. The most important…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-04 H. A. Erbay , S. Erbay , A. Erkip

The radiation condition is the key question in the mathematical modelling for scattering problems in unbounded domains. Mathematically, it plays the role as the "boundary condition" at the infinity, which guarantees the well-posedness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Ruming Zhang

We consider the scattering problem on locally perturbed periodic penetrable dielectric layers, which is formulated in terms of the full vector-valued time-harmonic Maxwell's equations. The right-hand side is not assumed to be periodic. At…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Alexander Konschin

In this paper, we investigate the effect of boundary surface roughness on numerical simulations of incompressible fluid flow past a cylinder in two and three spatial dimensions furnished with slip boundary conditions. The governing…

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We study the initial-value problem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Application of the inverse scattering transform method involves solving direct and inverse scattering problems for the Zakharov-Shabat system with complex…

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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Oscar P. Bruno , Manuel A. Santana

The finite volume methods are frequently employed in the discretization of diffusion problems with interface. In this paper, we firstly present a vertex-centered MACH-like finite volume method for solving stationary diffusion problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Jie Peng , Shi Shu , Haiyuan Yu , Chunsheng Feng , Mingxian Kan , Ganghua Wang

In order for surface scattering models to be accurate they must necessarily satisfy energy conservation and reciprocity principles. Roughness scattering models based on Kirchoff's approximation or perturbation theory do not satisfy these…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Karthik Sasihithlu , Nir Dahan , Jean-Paul Hugonin , Jean-Jacques Greffet

A method for detecting and approximating fault lines or surfaces, respectively, or decision curves in two and three dimensions with guaranteed accuracy is presented. Reformulated as a classification problem, our method starts from a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Matthias Grajewski , Andreas Kleefeld

Scattering of electronic waves in square and triangular lattice half-planes by a step on the surface is analyzed using the nearest-neighbour tight binding approximation. The changes in lattice spacing and the transfer integral between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Basant Lal Sharma