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We study the inverse problem in Optical Tomography of determining the optical properties of a medium $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, with $n\geq 3$, under the so-called diffusion approximation. We consider the time-harmonic case where $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Olga Doeva , Romina Gaburro , William R. B. Lionheart , Clifford J. Nolan

The acoustic scattering problem is modeled by the exterior Helmholtz equation, which is challenging to solve due to both the unboundedness of the domain and the high dispersion error, known as the pollution effect. We develop high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Bin Han , Jiwoon Sim

The modeling and simulation of electromagnetic wave propagation is often accompanied by a restriction to bounded domains which requires the introduction of artificial boundaries. The corresponding boundary conditions should be chosen in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Herbert Egger , Fritz Kretzschmar , Sascha M. Schnepp , Igor Tsukerman , Thomas Weiland

We study the time-harmonic scattering by a heterogeneous object covered with a thin layer of randomly distributed sound-soft nanoparticles. The size of the particles, their distance between each other and the layer's thickness are all of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Amandine Boucart , Sonia Fliss , Laure Giovangigli

Assume a time-harmonic elastic wave is incident onto a penetrable anisotropic body embedded into a homogeneous isotropic background medium. We propose an equivalent variational formulation in a truncated bounded domain and show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Gang Bao , Guanghui Hu , Jiguang Sun , Tao Yin

We present a simple model of the interface between a local homogeneous medium and a potentially nonlocal metamaterial/photonic crystal. This model allows us to calculate the scattering matrix elements of the interface for a plane wave of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-18 Chris Fietz , Costas M. Soukoulis

We study the electromagnetic field scattered by a metallic nanoparticle with dispersive material parameters in a resonant regime. We consider the particle placed in a homogeneous medium in a low-frequency regime. We define modes for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Lorenzo Baldassari , Pierre Millien , Alice L. Vanel

We study time-harmonic scattering by a periodic array of penetrable, high-contrast obstacles with small period, confined to a bounded Lipschitz domain. The strong contrast between the obstacles and the background induces subwavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Yuxin Du , Xin Fu , Wenjia Jing

In mechanical systems it is of interest to know the onset of fracture in dependence of the boundary conditions. Here we study a one-dimensional model which allows for an underlying heterogeneous structure in the discrete setting. Such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Laura Lauerbach , Stefan Neukamm , Mathias Schäffner , Anja Schlömerkemper

In this paper we introduce a method for solving linear and nonlinear scattering problems for wave equations using a new hybrid approach. This new approach consists of a reformulation of the governing equations into a form that can be solved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Aihua Lin , Anastasiia Kuzmina , Per Kristen Jakobsen

Finite element methods provide accurate and efficient methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations by means of restricting variational problems to finite-dimensional approximating spaces. However, they do not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Robert C. Kirby , John D. Stephens

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

Waves scattering from unbounded structures are always complicated problems for numerical simulations. For the case that the non-periodic incident field scattered by (locally perturbed) periodic surfaces, with the help of the Bloch…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Ruming Zhang

I formulate a general finite element method (FEM) for self-gravitating stellar systems. I split the configuration space to finite elements, and express the potential and density functions over each element in terms of their nodal values and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mir Abbas Jalali

We consider the two-dimensional high-frequency plane wave scattering problem in the exterior of a finite collection of disjoint, compact, smooth, strictly convex obstacles with Neumann boundary conditions. Using integral equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Yassine Boubendir , Fatih Ecevit

This paper is concerned with the cavity scattering problem in an infinite thin plate, where the out-of-plane displacement is governed by the two-dimensional biharmonic wave equation. Based on an operator splitting, the scattering problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Heping Dong , Peijun Li

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Scattering problems for periodic structures have been studied a lot in the past few years. A main idea for numerical solution methods is to reduce such problems to one periodicity cell. In contrast to periodic settings, scattering from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Armin Lechleiter , Ruming Zhang

A rarely exploited advantage of time-domain boundary integral equations compared to their frequency counterparts is that they can be used to treat certain nonlinear problems. In this work we investigate the scattering of acoustic waves by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Lehel Banjai , Alexander Rieder

Isogeometric analysis with the boundary element method (IGABEM) has recently gained interest. In this paper, the approximability of IGABEM on 3D acoustic scattering problems will be investigated and a new improved BeTSSi submarine will be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Jon Vegard Venås , Trond Kvamsdal