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The inverse problem of finding the refraction coefficient of a shallow ocean from the observation of the extra Cauchy data for the acoustic field at the surface of the ocean is studied. Uniqueness theorem is proved and a reconstruction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 A. G. Ramm

In the diffraction pattern produced by a half-plane sharp edge when it obstructs the passage of a laser beam, two characteristic regions are noticeable. There is a central region, where it can be noticed the diffraction of laser light in…

Scattering of refracting Huygens' metasurfaces is revisited. A new analytical closed-form solution is obtained for the two-dimensional problem under transverse electric (TE) plane-wave incidence -- a solution which gives the scattering for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Gleb A. Egorov , George V. Eleftheriades

The paper continues the analysis, started in [1] (Part I,arXiv:2302.04353), of the model open wave-guide problem defined by 2 semi-infinite, rectangular wave-guides meeting along a common perpendicular line. In Part I we reduce the solution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Charles L. Epstein

An exact analogy between wave mechanics in quantum theory and the scalar wave treatment of optics emerges from the marriage of Newtonian formulation of geometrical optics [1] and the ``formal quantum theory of light rays'' [2]. Here the…

General Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Sayanho Biswas , Kolahal Bhattacharya

We describe a fast, stable algorithm for the solution of the inverse acoustic scattering problem in two dimensions. Given full aperture far field measurements of the scattered field for multiple angles of incidence, we use Chen's method of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Carlos Borges , Adrianna Gillman , Leslie Greengard

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

In this paper, we study the light double-slit diffraction experiment with quantum theory approach. Firstly, we calculate the light wave function in slits by quantum theory of photon. Secondly, we calculate the diffraction wave function with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Xiang-Yao Wu , Hong Li , Bo-Jun Zhang , Ji Ma , Xiao-Jing Liu , Nuo Ba , He Dong , Si-Qi Zhang , Jing Wang , Yi-Heng Wu , Xin-Guo Yin

It is proved that if the scattering amplitudes at a fixed wavenumber for two obstacles from a certain large class of obstacles differ a little, than the obstacles differ a little. Error estimate is given. It is proved that there is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

This paper is concerned with the direct and inverse random source scattering problems for elastic waves where the source is assumed to be driven by an additive white noise. Given the source, the direct problem is to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Gang Bao , Chuchu Chen , Peijun Li

In this paper it is shown the performing of an optical transform to state the scalar diffraction in the formulation of the wavelet transform and the 'wave equations'. From there, a bridge is build between equations of spherical waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 V. V. Vermehren , H. M. de Oliveira

We study solution techniques for an evolution equation involving second order derivative in time and the spectral fractional powers, of order $s \in (0,1)$, of symmetric, coercive, linear, elliptic, second-order operators in bounded domains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Lehel Banjai , Enrique Otarola

We study the well-posedness of a semilinear fractional diffusion equation and formulate an associated inverse problem. We determine fractional power type nonlinearities from the exterior partial measurements of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Li Li

We solve the inverse spectral problem for rotationally symmetric manifolds, which include the class of surfaces of revolution, by giving an analytic isomorphism from the space of spectral data onto the space of functions describing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Hiroshi Isozaki , Evgeny L. Korotyaev

A discrete spherical harmonics method is developed for the radiative transfer problem in inhomogeneous polarized planar atmosphere illuminated at the top by a collimated sunlight while the bottom reflects the radiation. The method expands…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Romuald Tapimo , Hervé Thierry Tagne Kamdem , David Yemele

The Poggendorff illusion in its classical form of parallel lines interrupting a transversal is viewed from the perspective of being related to the everyday experience of observing the light refraction in water. It is argued that, if one…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-29 Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Scalar wave scattering by many small particles of arbitrary shapes with impedance boundary condition is studied. The problem is solved asymptotically and numerically under the assumptions a << d << lambda, where k = 2pi/lambda is the wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Alexander Ramm , Nhan Tran

Shock waves are fundamental in nature. One of the most fundamental problems in fluid mechanics is shock reflection-diffraction by wedges. The complexity of reflection-diffraction configurations was first reported by Ernst Mach in 1878. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Mikhail Feldman

In this paper, we extend the paraxial conical refraction model to the case of the partially coherent light using the unified optical coherence theory. We demonstrate the decomposition of conical refraction correlation functions into…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-12 V. Yu. Mylnikov , V. V. Dudelev , E. U. Rafailov , G. S. Sokolovskii

We consider the Bayesian approach to the inverse problem of recovering the shape of an object from measurements of its scattered acoustic field. Working in the time-harmonic setting, we focus on a Helmholtz transmission problem and then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Safiere Kuijpers , Laura Scarabosio
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