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Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems in the frequency domain within heterogeneous media poses significant mathematical and computational challenges, particularly in the high-frequency regime. Among the available numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Victorita Dolean , Mark Fry , Matthias Langer , Emile Parolin , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We show that the properties of the lower part of the spectrum of the Helmholtz equation for an heterogeneous system in a finite region in $d$ dimensions, where the solutions to the homogeneous problems are known, can be systematically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Paolo Amore

We analyze the propagation of waves in unbounded photonic crystals, the waves are described by a Helmholtz equation with $x$-dependent coefficients. The scattering problem must be completed with a radiation condition at infinity, which was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Agnes Lamacz , Ben Schweizer

We consider the solution of a scalar Helmholtz equation where the potential (or index) takes two positive values, one inside a disk of radius $\epsilon$ and another one outside. We derive sharp estimates of the size of the scattered field…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Yves Capdeboscq

We consider a polyhedron with zero classical resistance, i.e., a polyhedron invisible to an observer viewing only the paths of geometrical optics rays. The corresponding problem of scattering of plane waves by the polyhedron is studied. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 E. Lakshtanov , B. D. Sleeman , B. Vainberg

We present a novel hybrid numerical-asymptotic boundary element method for high frequency acoustic and electromagnetic scattering by penetrable (dielectric) convex polygons. Our method is based on a standard reformulation of the associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Samuel P. Groth , David P. Hewett , Stephen Langdon

This article deals with the numerical approximation of effective coefficients in stochastic homogenization of discrete linear elliptic equations. The originality of this work is the use of a well-known abstract spectral representation…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Antoine Gloria , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

This paper investigates the elastic scattering by unbounded deterministic and random rough surfaces, which both are assumed to be graphs of Lipschitz continuous functions. For the deterministic case, an a priori bound explicitly dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Tianjiao Wang , Yiwen Lin , Xiang Xu

In this paper, we study the nonlinear periodic Westervelt equation with excitations located within a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $d \in \{2,3\}$, subject to Robin boundary conditions. This problem is of particular interest for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Benjamin Rainer , Barbara Kaltenbacher

We investigate the sound propagation in an air-filled tube periodically loaded with Helmholtz resonators. By tuning the Helmholtz with the Bragg resonance, we study the efficiency of slow sound propagation in the presence of the intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Theocharis , O. Richoux , V. Romero-García , V. Tournat

We consider an eigenvalue problem for a divergence form elliptic operator $A_\epsilon$ with high contrast periodic coefficients with period $\epsilon$ in each coordinate, where $\epsilon$ is a small parameter. The coefficients are perturbed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-29 M. I. Cherdantsev

We present a wavenumber-explicit convergence analysis of the hp finite element method applied to a class of heterogeneous Helmholtz problems with piecewise analytic coefficients at large wavenumber $k$. Our analysis covers the heterogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-05 M. Bernkopf , T. Chaumont-Frelet , J. M. Melenk

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

We consider an inner problem for whispering gallery high-frequency asymptotic mode's scattering by a boundary inflection. The related boundary-value problem for a Schr\"{o}dinger equation on a half-line with a potential linear in both space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-09 V. P. Smyshlyaev , I. V. Kamotski

High-frequency wave propagation is often modelled by nonlinear Friedrichs systems where both the differential equation and the initial data contain the inverse of a small parameter $\varepsilon$, which causes oscillations with wavelengths…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Julian Baumstark , Tobias Jahnke

We consider the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with a given source term, and a small absorption parameter $\a>0$. The high-frequency (or: semi-classical) parameter is $\eps>0$. We let $\eps$ and $\a$ go to zero simultaneously. We assume…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 François Castella

We consider wave propagation across an infinite waveguide of an arbitrary bounded cross-section, whose interior is blocked by two identical thick barriers with holes. When the holes are small, the waves over a broad range of frequencies are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 A. Delitsyn , D. S. Grebenkov

The article studies the reiterated homogenization of linear elliptic variational inequalities arising in problems with unilateral constrains. We assume that the coefficients of the equations satisfy and abstract hypothesis covering on each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Hermann Douanla , Cyrille Kenne

The present paper is concerned with a space-time homogenization problem for nonlinear diffusion equations with periodically oscillating (in space and time) coefficients. Main results consist of a homogenization theorem (i.e., convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Goro Akagi , Tomoyuki Oka

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