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Wavefront shaping (WFS) has emerged as powerful tool to control the propagation of diverse wave phenomena (light, sound, microwaves, ...) in disordered matter for applications including imaging, communication, energy transfer,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Philipp del Hougne , K. Brahima Yeo , Philippe Besnier , Matthieu Davy

We present a compressive beamforming method for coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC) ultrasound imaging based on a far-field decomposition of the received radiofrequency (RF) data into virtual plane waves. This decomposition recasts the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Nikunj Khetan , Jerome Mertz

This paper is concerned with the development of imaging methods to localize sources or reflectors in inhomogeneous moving media with acoustic waves that have travelled through them. A typical example is the localization of broadband…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-30 Etienne Gay , Luc Bonnet , Christophe Peyret , Éric Savin , Josselin Garnier

We introduce a new method to propagate uncertainties in the beam shapes used to measure the cosmic microwave background to cosmological parameters determined from those measurements. The method, which we call Markov Chain Beam…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Rocha , L. Pagano , K. M. Górski , K. M. Huffenberger , C. R. Lawrence , A. E. Lange

This work develops machine learning approaches to classify structured light wave beams developing random speckle disturbances as they propagate through turbulent atmospheres. Beam propagation is modeled by the numerical simulation of a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-17 Aokun Wang , Anjali Nair , Zhongjian Wang , Guillaume Bal

We propose a time-domain boundary integral method to model linear wave propagation with refractive, focusing, and Doppler effects arising from medium heterogeneities and moving obstacles. In contrast to existing techniques, our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Raaghav Ramani

Probabilistic graphical models compactly represent joint distributions by decomposing them into factors over subsets of random variables. In Bayesian networks, the factors are conditional probability distributions. For many problems, common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Weirui Kong , Wenyi Wang

Efficient and accurate numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation is important in various Geophysical applications such as seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) problem. However, due to the large size of the physical domain and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Keran Li , Wenyuan Liao , Yaoting Lin

This paper investigates calibration of sensor arrays in the radio astronomy context. Current and future radio telescopes require computationally efficient algorithms to overcome the new technical challenges as large collecting area, wide…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-31 Virginie Ollier , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , André Ferrari , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

We use the alternating direction method to simulate implicit dynamics. ur spatial discretization uses isogeometric analysis. Namely, we simulate a (hyperbolic) wave propagation problem in which we use tensor-product B-splines in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Marcin Los , Pouria Behnoudfar , Maciej Paszynski , Victor Manuel Calo

The Wave Based Method (WBM) is a Trefftz method for the simulation of wave problems in vibroacoustics. Like other Trefftz methods, it employs a non-standard discretisation basis consisting of solutions of the partial differential equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Daan Huybrechs , Anda-Elena Olteanu

We describe a time-resolved monitoring technique for heterogeneous media. Our approach is based on the spatial variations of the cross-coherence of coda waveforms acquired at fixed positions but at different dates. To locate and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-19 Vincent Rossetto , Ludovic Margerin , Thomas Planès , Éric Larose

We analyze the semiclassical evolution of Gaussian wavepackets in chaotic systems. We prove that after some short time a Gaussian wavepacket becomes a primitive WKB state. From then on, the state can be propagated using the standard TDWKB…

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Smoothed phase-coded frequency modulated continuous waveform (SPC-FMCW), which is aimed to improve the coexistence of multiple radars operating within the same frequency bandwidth, is studied, and the receiving strategy with a low ADC…

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Continuous Variable-Based Quantum Cryptography (CV-QKD) is an emerging field in quantum information science, offering unprecedented security for communication protocols by harnessing the principles of quantum mechanics. However, ocean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Ramniwas Meena , Subhashish Banerjee

A wave packet undergoes a strong spatial and temporal dispersion while propagating through a complex medium. This wave scattering is often seen as a nightmare in wave physics whether it be for focusing, imaging or communication purposes.…

The Kramers-Kronig (KK) algorithm, useful for retrieving the phase of a spectrum based on the known spectral amplitude, is applied to reconstruct the impulse response of a diffusive medium. It is demonstrated by a simulation of a 1D…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Er'el Granot , Shmuel Sternklar

This paper proposes simple moment based spectrum sensing algorithm for cognitive radio networks in a flat fading channel. It is assumed that the transmitted signal samples are binary (quadrature) phase-shift keying BPSK (QPSK), Mary…

Applications · Statistics 2013-11-26 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Luc Vandendorpe

In this work, we introduce a novel framework which combines physics and machine learning methods to analyse acoustic signals. Three methods are developed for this task: a Bayesian inference approach for inferring the spectral acoustics…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yongchao Huang , Yuhang He , Hong Ge

We present a fast algorithm for evaluating the (non-smooth) solution of the free-space two-dimensional (2D) scalar wave equation with many point sources, each with a high-frequency band-limited time signature. Such an algorithm is key to an…

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