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Schr\"odinger-type eigenvalue problems are ubiquitous in theoretical physics, with quantum-mechanical applications typically confined to cases for which the eigenfunctions are required to be normalizable on the real axis. However, seeking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Björn Garbrecht , Nils Wagner

In this paper we present a multilevel projection-based iterative scheme for solving thermal radiative transfer problems that performs iteration cycles on the high-order Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and low-order moment equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Joseph M. Coale , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

A boundary integral equation formulation is presented for the electromagnetic transmission problem where an incident electromagnetic wave is scattered from a bounded dielectric object. The formulation provides unique solutions for all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Johan Helsing , Anders Karlsson

The Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation for a point electron, while suffering from runaway solutions and an acausal response to external forces, is compatible with the optical theorem. We show that a theory of radiative reaction that allows for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 F. Intravaia , R. Behunin , P. W. Milonni , G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

We consider the transmission eigenvalues for a bounded scatterer with a periodically varying index of refraction, and derive the first order corrections to the limiting transmission eigenvalues. We assume the scatterer contrast to be of one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Fioralba Cakoni , Shari Moskow

We propose a new approach to the numerical solution of radiative transfer equations with certified a posteriori error bounds. A key role is played by stable Petrov--Galerkin type variational formulations of parametric transport equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Wolfgang Dahmen , Felix Gruber , Olga Mula

Radiative transfer in curved spacetimes has become increasingly important to understanding high-energy astrophysical phenomena and testing general relativity in the strong field limit. The equations of radiative transfer are physically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick

Analytic solutions to the nonlinear radiation diffusion equation with an instantaneous point source for a non-homogeneous medium with a power law spatial density profile, are presented. The solutions are a generalization of the well known…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Menahem Krief

In this paper we study the asymptotic phase space energy distribution of solution of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a time-dependent random potential. The random potential is assumed to be with slowly decaying correlations. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Christophe Gomez

In the stellar chromospheres, radiative energy transport is dominated by only the strongest spectral lines. For these lines, the approximation of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) is known to be very inaccurate, and a state of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 L. S. Anusha , M. van Noort , R. H. Cameron

In medical SPECT imaging, we seek to simultaneously obtain the internal radioactive sources and the attenuation map using not only ballistic measurements but also first order scattering measurements. The problem is modeled using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Matias Courdurier , Francois Monard , Axel Osses , Francisco Romero

We consider an inverse source problem in the stationary radiative transport through an absorbing and scattering medium in two dimensions. Using the angularly resolved radiation measured on an arc of the boundary, we propose a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Hiroshi Fujiwara , Kamran Sadiq , Alexandru Tamasan

The solar atmosphere is diagnosed by solving the polarized radiative transfer problem for plasmas in Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE). A key challenge in multidimensional NLTE diagnosis is to integrate efficiently the radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 E. S. Carlin , S. Blanes , F. Casas

This paper concerns the quantitative step of the medical imaging modality Thermo-acoustic Tomography (TAT). We model the radiation propagation by a system of Maxwell's equations. We show that the index of refraction of light and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Guillaume Bal , Ting Zhou

This article presents an on-line tool (rttools.irap.omp.eu) and its accompanying software ressources for the numerical solution of basic radiation transfer out of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). State-of-the-art stationary iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 J. Lambert , F. Paletou , E. Josselin , J. -M. Glorian

The transition-matrix ($T$-matrix) approach provides a general formalism to study scattering problems in various areas of physics, including acoustics (scalar fields) and electromagnetics (vector fields), and is related to the theory of the…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-08 Eric C. Le Ru , Walter R. C. Somerville , Baptiste Auguié

We present a numerical method for handling the resolution of a general transport equation for radiative particles, aimed at physical problems with a general spherical geometry. Having in mind the computational time difficulties encountered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Silvano Bonazzola , Nicolas Vasset , Bruno Peres

We consider the inverse problem of the broken ray transform (sometimes also referred to as the V-line transform). Explicit image reconstruction formulas are derived and tested numerically. The obtained formulas are generalizations of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-07 Lucia Florescu , Vadim A. Markel , John C. Schotland

Recent results in quantitative homogenisation of the wave equation with rapidly oscillating coefficients are discussed from the operator-theoretic perspective, which views the solution as the result of applying the operator of hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Kirill Cherednichenko , Yi-Sheng Lim

In this paper we present a novel method for the numerical solution of linear transport equations, which is based on ridgelets. Such equations arise for instance in radiative transfer or in phase contrast imaging. Due to the fact that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Philipp Grohs , Axel Obermeier