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An inverse obstacle scattering problem for the electromagnetic wave governed by the Maxwell system over a finite time interval is considered. It is assumed that the wave satisfies the Leontovich boundary condition on the surface of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Masaru Ikehata

Elastic wave propagation is studied in a heterogeneous 2-D medium consisting of an elastic matrix containing randomly distributed circular elastic inclusions. The aim of this study is to determine the effective wavenumbers when the incident…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Mathieu Chekroun , Loïc Le Marrec , Bruno Lombard , Joël Piraux

This paper is concerned with the scattering problem for time-harmonic electromagnetic waves, due to the presence of scatterers and of inhomogeneities in the medium. We prove a sharp stability result for the solutions to the direct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Hongyu Liu , Luca Rondi , Jingni Xiao

In this paper, we consider the obstacle scattering problem for biharmonic equations with a Dirichlet boundary condition in both two and three dimensions. Some basic properties are first derived for the biharmonic scattering solutions, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

Consider the scattering of an elastic plane wave by a rigid obstacle, which is immersed in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. Based on a Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) operator, an exact transparent boundary condition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

We obtain a nonperturbative, analytical solution to integral equation of scattering theory by assuming the field within the scattering object is a spherical wave with a scattering amplitude equal to that of the far field. This approximation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Brian Slovick , Srini Krishnamurthy

The scattering of electromagnetic waves from obstacles with wave-material interaction in thin layers on the surface is described by generalized impedance boundary conditions, which provide effective approximate models. In particular, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Jörg Nick , Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

Many integral equation-based methods are available for problems of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. Among the many challenges that arise in such calculations are the avoidance of spurious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Felipe Vico , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil , Manas Rachh

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are designed by periodically arranged subwavelength geometries, allowing a tailored manipulation of the electromagnetic response of matter. Here, we exploit temporal variations of permittivity inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

More than ten years ago Ikehata discovered two mathematical methods for the purpose of extracting information about the location and shape of unknown discontinuity embedded in a known background medium from observation data. The methods are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Masaru Ikehata

Time-resolved scattering experiments enable imaging of materials at the molecular scale with femtosecond time resolution. However, in disordered media they provide access to just one radial dimension thus limiting the study of orientational…

Unique and highly tunable optical properties of PT-symmetric systems and metamaterials enable a plenty of entirely new linear and nonlinear optical phenomena with numerous applications, e.g., for designing subdiffraction lenses,…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-15 Denis Novitsky , Alexander Shalin , Andrey Novitsky

Consider the time-domain multiple cavity scattering problem, which arises in diverse scientific areas and has significant industrial and military applications. The multiple cavity embedded in an infinite ground plane, is filled with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Yang Liu , Yixian Gao , Jian Zu

We study a symmetric BEM-FEM coupling scheme for the scattering of transient acoustic waves by bounded inhomogeneous anisotropic obstacles in a homogeneous field. An incident wave in free space interacts with the obstacles and produces a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Matthew E. Hassell , Francisco-Javier Sayas

This paper is devoted to studying impedance eigenvalues (that is, eigenvalues of a particular Dirichlet-to-Neumann map) for the time harmonic linear elastic wave problem, and their potential use as target-signatures for fluid-solid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Michael Levitin , Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas

This paper is concerned with the invisibility cloaking in acoustic wave scattering from a new perspective. We are especially interested in achieving the invisibility cloaking by completely regular and isotropic mediums. It is shown that an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Xia Ji , Hongyu Liu

In this paper, we consider the approximate acoustic cloaking in inhomogeneous isotropic background space. By employing transformation media, together with the use of a sound-soft layer lining right outside the cloaked region, we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Hongyu Liu

Exact solutions are derived for the problem of a two-dimensional, infinitely anisotropic, linear-elastic medium containing a periodic lattice of voids. The matrix material possesses either one infinitely soft, or one infinitely hard loading…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-17 Francois Willot , Yves-Patrick Pellegrini , Pedro Ponte Castaneda

Incompressibility is established for three-dimensional and two-dimensional deformations of an anisotropic linearly elastic material, as conditions to be satisfied by the elastic compliances. These conditions make it straightforward to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-23 Michel Destrade , Paul A. Martin , Tom C. T. Ting

We consider inverse obstacle and transmission scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface that is a boundary of a domain located outside of the obstacle/inhomogeneity of the media. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg