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In quantitative analysis of seafloor imagery, it is common to model the collection of individual pixel intensities scattered by the seafloor as a random variable with a given statistical distribution. There is a considerable literature on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Derek R Olson , Marc Geilhufe

The probability density function of the acoustic field amplitude scattered by the seafloor was measured in a rocky environment off the coast of Norway using a synthetic aperture sonar system, and is reported here in terms of the probability…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Derek R. Olson , Anthony P. Lyons , Douglas A. Abraham , Torstein O. Sæbø

The Kirchhoff approximation (K-A) to calculate the acoustic backscattering of a complex structure can be evaluated using a discretized version of its surface (i.e. a $\textit{mesh}$). From the computational viewpoint, the most accesible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Edmundo Lavia , Juan D. Gonzalez , Silvia Blanc

We study time harmonic acoustic scattering on large deviation rough random scatterers. Therein, the roughness of the scatterers is caused by a low Sobolev regularity in the covariance function of their deformation field. The motivation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Jürgen Dölz , Wei Huang , Michael Multerer

We derive an analytic expression for the height correlation function of a rough surface based on the inverse wave scattering method of Kirchhoff theory. The expression directly relates the height correlation function to diffuse scattered…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-02 M. Zamani , F. Shafiei , S. M. Fazeli , M. C. Downer , G. R. Jafari

Seismic data are commonly modeled by a high-frequency single scattering approximation. This amounts to a linearization in the medium coefficient about a smooth background. The discontinuities are contained in the medium perturbation. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Christiaan C. Stolk , Maarten V. de Hoop

A microscopic model of surface roughness (SR) scattering in inversion layers of bulk-MOSFETs based on Ando's linear model is proposed. Taking into account the stochastic nature of roughness position induced by discontinuity of the spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Nobuyuki Sano

The scattering of scalar waves by a set of scatterers is considered. It is proven that the scattered field can be represented as an integral supported by any smooth surface enclosing the scatterers. This is a generalization of the series…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Didier Felbacq , Anthony Gourdin , Emmanuel Rousseau

Measurements of acoustic backscattering from glacially-eroded rock outcrops were made off the coast of Sandefjord, Norway using a high-frequency synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) system. A method by which scattering strength can be estimated…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-04-15 Derek R. Olson , Anthony P. Lyons , Torstein Sæbø

We discuss and briefly overview recent progress with studying fluctuations in scattering on a resonance state coupled to the background of many chaotic states. Such a problem arises naturally, e.g., when dealing with wave propagation in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 D. V. Savin

We are concerned with the acoustic scattering problem by many small rigid obstacles of arbitrary shapes. We give a sufficient condition on the number $M$ and the diameter $a$ of the obstacles as well as the minimum distance $d$ between them…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Durga Prasad Challa , Mourad Sini

Multi-layered structures are widely used in the construction of metamaterial devices to realize various cutting-edge waveguide applications. This paper makes several contributions to the mathematical analysis of subwavelength resonances in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Youjun Deng , Lingzheng Kong , Yongjian Liu , Liyan Zhu

Acoustic wave propagation in a fluid with a random assortment of identical cylindrical scatterers is considered. While the leading order correction to the effective wavenumber of the coherent wave is well established at dilute areal density…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-07 Andrew N. Norris , Jean-Marc Conoir

Scattering resonances play a crucial role in understanding wave behavior in various physical systems. While significant progress has been made in analyzing resonances in high-contrast and nonlinear media, a general characterization of…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-29 Taoufik Meklachi

Electromagnetic wave scattering from planar dielectric films deposited on one-dimensional, randomly rough, perfectly conducting substrates is studied by numerical simulations for both p- and s-polarization. The reduced Rayleigh equation,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-25 I. Simonsen , A. A. Maradudin

The increasing density of space objects in low-Earth orbit highlights the critical need for accurate orbit predictions to minimise operational disruptions. One significant challenge lies in accurately modelling the interaction of gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Sabin Viorel Anton , Bernardo Sousa Alves , Christian Siemes , Jose van den IJssel , Pieter N. A. M. Visser

The problem of an electromagnetic wave scattering by a slab with two rough boundaries is solved by a small-perturbation method under the Rayleigh hypothesis. In order to obtain a perturbative development, we use a systematic procedure which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Soubret , G. Berginc , C. Bourrely

We consider the problem of reconstructing the seabed topography from observations of surface gravity waves. We formulate the problem as a classical inverse scattering problem using the mild-slope equation, and analyze the topographic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Adrian Kirkeby

We investigate the interplay between amplitude and square-gradient scattering from the rough surfaces in multi-mode waveguides (conducting quantum wires). The main result is that for any (even small in height) roughness the square-gradient…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov

This paper introduces an infinite-dimensional Bayesian framework for acoustic seabed tomography, leveraging wave scattering to simultaneously estimate the seabed and its roughness. Tomography is considered an ill-posed problem where…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-14 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Ana Carpio