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Geometrically decorated two-dimensional (2D) discrete surfaces can be more effective than conventional smooth reflectors in managing wave radiation. Constructive non-specular wave scattering permits the scattering angle to be other than…

We survey functional analytic methods for studying subwavelength resonator systems. In particular, rigorous discrete approximations of Helmholtz scattering problems are derived in an asymptotic subwavelength regime. This is achieved by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Habib Ammari , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

A low frequency approximation of the discrete Sommerfeld diffraction problems, involving the scattering of a time harmonic lattice wave incident on square lattice by a discrete Dirichlet or a discrete Neumann half-plane, is investigated. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Basant Lal Sharma

The topographical scattering of gravity waves is investigated using a spectral energy balance equation that accounts for first order wave-bottom Bragg scattering. This model represents the bottom topography and surface waves with spectra,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudy Magne , Fabrice Ardhuin , Vincent Rey , Thomas H. C. Herbers

We give a counter part of Sommerfeld outging radiation condition for waves propagating in a 2d periodic medium under generical assumptions and provide a uniqueness theorem for outgoing solutions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Vincent Lescarret

The Helmholtz equation can be written as coupled equations for the amplitude and phase. By considering spatial phase distributions corresponding to reflectionless wave propagation in the plane and solving for the amplitude in terms of this…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Chris King , Simon Horsley , Thomas Philbin

In this paper we study the variational method and integral equation methods for a conical diffraction problem for imperfectly conducting gratings modeled by the impedance boundary value problem of the Helmholtz equation in periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Guanghui Hu , Jiayi Zhang , Linlin Zhu

Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lehel Banjai , Christian Lubich , Joerg Nick

An approach to diffraction tomography is investigated for two-dimensional image reconstruction of objects surrounded by an arbitrarily-shaped curve of sources and receivers. Based on the integral theorem of Helmholtz and Kirchhoff, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 G. T. Clement

In this paper, we will study increasing stability in the inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in the plane when the source term is assumed to be compactly supported in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with sufficiently smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Mozhgan Nora Entekhabi , Victor Isakov

We study wave scattering by a finite transversal strip in a discrete square-lattice waveguide with Dirichlet boundary conditions imposed on the strip and the waveguide walls. The setting is motivated as a discrete analogue of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Elena Medvedeva , Raphael Assier , Anastasia Kisil

The celebrated Sommerfeld wedge diffraction solution is reexamined from a null interior field perspective. Exact surface currents provided by that solution, when considered as disembodied half-plane laminae radiating into an ambient,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-13 J. A. Grzesik

The problem of diffraction of a waveguide mode by a thin Neumann screen is considered. The incident mode is assumed to have frequency close to the cut-off. The problem is reduced to a propagation problem on a branched surface and then is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-24 Andrey V. Shanin , Andrey I. Korolkov

We formulate a problem that can be viewed as a natural variation of the so-called Pompeiu or Schiffer problem in the context of scattering of plane waves for the Linear Helmholtz equation. For the two dimensional version of this variation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Narek Hovsepyan , Michael S. Vogelius

The anomalous features in diffraction patterns first observed by Wood over a century ago have been the subject of many investigations, both experimental and theoretical. The sharp, narrow structures - and the large resonances with which…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-29 Daniel A. Travo , Rodrigo A. Muniz , Marco Liscidini , J. E. Sipe

In this work, a recently developed novel solution of the famous "Sommerfeld Radiation Problem" is revisited. The solution is based on an analysis performed entirely in the spectral domain, through which a compact asymptotic formula…

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We study a new approach to the problem of transparent boundary conditions for the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains. Our approach is based on the minimization of an integral functional arising from a volume integral formulation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Giulio Ciraolo , Francesco Gargano , Vincenzo Sciacca

This paper is concerned with acoustic scattering from a sound-soft trapezoidal surface in two dimensions. The trapezoidal surface is supposed to consist of two horizontal half-lines pointing oppositely, and a single finite vertical line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Wangtao Lu , Guanghui Hu

We apply the stationary phase method developed in (Assier, Shanin \& Korolkov, QJMAM, 76(1), 2022) to the problem of wave diffraction by a quarter-plane. The wave field is written as a double Fourier transform of an unknown spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Raphael C. Assier , Andrey V. Shanin , Andrey I. Korolkov

For the problem of diffraction of harmonic scalar waves by a lossless periodic slab scatterer, we analyze field sensitivity with respect to the material coefficients of the slab. The governing equation is the Helmholtz equation, which…

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