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We discuss the localization of radiation sources whose number and other relevant parameters are not known in advance. The data collection is ensured by an autonomous mobile robot that performs a survey in a defined region of interest…

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We study the phonon modes of interacting particles on the surface of a truncated cone resting on a plane subject to gravity, inspired by recent colloidal experiments. We derive the ground state configuration of the particles under…

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In this paper, we investigate two types of time-harmonic elastic wave scattering problems. The first one involves the scattered wave generated by an active elastic source with compact support. The second one concerns elastic wave scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Huaian Diao , Xiaoxu Fei , Hongyu Liu

Exceptional points (EPs) have been widely studied in quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, optics and photonics. However, their potential in acoustics has only recently been recognized due to the rapid development of acoustic…

The electromagnetic field distribution as well as the resonating frequency of various modes in superconducting cavities used in particle accelerators for example are sensitive to small geometry deformations. The occurring variations are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Niklas Georg , Wolfgang Ackermann , Jacopo Corno , Sebastian Schöps

We consider the inverse source problem of a fixed wavenumber: study properties of an acoustic source based on a single far- or near-field measurement. We show that nonradiating sources having a convex or non-convex corner or edge on their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Eemeli Blåsten

We investigate the inverse source problem for the wave equation, arising in photo- and thermoacoustic tomography. There exist quite a few theoretically exact inversion formulas explicitly expressing solution of this problem in terms of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Ngoc Do , Leonid Kunyansky

We propose an approach to measure surface elastic constants of soft solids. Generally, this requires one to probe interfacial mechanics at around the elastocapillary length scale, which is typically microscopic. Deformations of microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-02 Stefanie Heyden , Petia M. Vlahovska , Eric R. Dufresne

This article presents the experimental characterization of nonreciprocal elastic wave transmission in a single-mode elastic waveguide. This asymmetric system is obtained by coupling a selection layer with a conversion layer: the selection…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Thibaut Devaux , Vincent Tournat , Olivier Richoux , Vincent Pagneux

Mathematical modeling of resonant waves propagating in 2D periodic infinite lattices is conducted. Rectangular-cell, triangular-cell and hexagonal-cell lattices are considered. Eigenvalues (here eigenfrequencies) of steady-state problems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 G. Osharovich , M. Ayzenberg-Stepanenko

We propose a real-space approach explaining and controlling the occurrence of edge-localized gap states between the spectral quasibands of binary tight binding chains with deterministic aperiodic long-range order. The framework is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Malte Röntgen , Christian V. Morfonios , Ren Wang , Luca Dal Negro , Peter Schmelcher

Physical modelling synthesis aims to generate audio from physical simulations of vibrating structures. Thin elastic plates are a common model for drum membranes. Traditional numerical methods like finite differences and finite elements…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Carlos De La Vega Martin , Rodrigo Diaz Fernandez , Mark Sandler

Local positional disorder in soft, anharmonic materials has emerged as a central factor in shaping their electronic, vibrational, optical, and transport properties. Viewed mainly as a source of performance degradation, recent theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 Marios Zacharias , Jacky Even

The eigenmodes of resonating structures, e.g., electromagnetic cavities, are sensitive to deformations of their shape. In order to compute the sensitivities of the eigenpair with respect to a scalar parameter, we state the Laplacian and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Anna Ziegler , Melina Merkel , Peter Gangl , Sebastian Schöps

The current study is motivated by the paper [Z. Liu, et al., {\it Science}, 289(5485), 2000], which investigates the incorporation of hard inclusions within a soft elastic matrix (HISE). The objective is to attain a negative mass density,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Hongjie Li , Jun Zou

We discuss a random matrix model of systems with an approximate symmetry and present the spectral fluctuation statistics and eigenvector characteristics for the model. An acoustic resonator like, e.g., an aluminium plate may have an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Andersen , C. Ellegaard , A. D. Jackson , K. Schaadt

Resonances are usually associated with finite systems - the vibrations of clamped strings in a guitar or the optical modes in a cavity defined by mirrors. In optics, resonances may be induced in infinite continuous media via periodic…

Near the band edge of photonic crystal waveguides, localized modes appear due to disorder. We demonstrate a new method to elucidate spatial profile of the localized modes in such systems using precise local tuning. Using deconvolution with…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Lian , S. Sokolov , E. Yüce , S. Combrié , A. De Rossi , A. P. Mosk , .

We consider point sources in hyperbolic equations discretized by finite differences. If the source is stationary, appropriate source discretization has been shown to preserve the accuracy of the finite difference method. Moving point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Ylva Ljungberg Rydin , Martin Almquist

This paper concerns the inverse source scattering problems of recovering random sources for acoustic and elastic waves. The underlying sources are assumed to be random functions driven by an additive white noise. The inversion process aims…

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