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The analytical method of solving the boundary problems for a system of equations describing the behaviour of electrons and an electric field in the Maxwell plasma half-space is developed. Here the diffusion reflection of electrons from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Yu. F. Alabina , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

This note offers a conceptually straightforward and efficient way to formulate and solve problems in the electromagnetics of moving media based on a representation of Maxwell's equations in terms of differential forms on spacetime together…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C E S Canovan , Robin W Tucker

It is now widely accepted that the Maxwell equations of Electrodynamics constitute a self-consistent set of four independent partial differential equations. According to a certain school of thought, however, half of these equations -…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 C. J. Papachristou , A. N. Magoulas

In the recent decades, it became more and more popular for engineers, physicists, and mathematicians alike to put the Maxwell equations into a generally covariant form. This is particularly useful for understanding the fundamental structure…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yakov Itin , Yuri N. Obukhov

We consider the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in a complex geometry. We are interested in geometries that model polarization filters or Faraday cages. We study the situation that the underlying domain contains perfectly conducting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Ben Schweizer , David Wiedemann

In this paper, we discuss the Maxwell equations in terms of differential forms, both in the 3-dimensional space and in the 4-dimensional space-time manifold. Further, we view the classical electrodynamics as the curvature of a line bundle,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Shenghua Du , Cheng Hao , Yueke Hu , Yuming Hui , Quan Shi , Li Wang , Yuqing Wu

A new representation for solutions of Maxwell's equations is derived. Instead of being expanded in plane waves, the solutions are given as linear superpositions of spherical wavelets dynamically adapted to the Maxwell field and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerald Kaiser

We are interested in the homogenization of energy like quantities in electromagnetism. We prove a general propagation Theorem for H-measures associated to Maxwell's system, in the full space $\Omega =\R^{3}$, without boundary conditions. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hassan Taha

The generalised hydrodynamic theory of an electron gas, which does not rely on an assumption of a local equilibrium, is derived as the long-wave limit of a kinetic equation. Apart from the common hydrodynamics variables the theory includes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Tokatly , O. Pankratov

We propose a new method to study motions of mixtures in fluid interfaces. We extend the equations of equilibrium in interfaces and the results associated with travelling waves for van der Waals like fluids. Maxwell rule is extended to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-12-18 Henri Gouin

In order to extend the limits of classical theory application in the microworld some weak generalization of Maxwell electrodynamics is suggested. It is shown that slightly generalized classical Maxwell electrodynamics can describe the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Simulik , I. Yu. Krivsky

Propagation, transmission and reflection properties of linearly polarized plane waves and arbitrarily short electromagnetic pulses in one-dimensional dispersionless dielectric media possessing an arbitrary space-time dependence of the…

The Westervelt equation describes the propagation of pressure waves in continuous nonlinear and, eventually, diffusive media. The classical framework of this equation corresponds to fluid dynamics theory. This work seeks to connect this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Mariano Caruso , Guillermo Rus , Juan Melchor

In this work we study the electric field of a dipole immersed in a medium with permittivity controlled by a real scalar field which is non-minimally coupled to the Maxwell field. We model the system with an interesting function, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-13 D. Bazeia , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

Electromagnetic wave is reflected and refracted at interfaces, satisfying Fresnel-Snell law which is required by conservations of energy and momentum. If the incident angle is lower than the critical angle, we can use this Fresnel-Snell…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-30 Daigo Oue

Propagation of elastic waves along the axis of cylindrical shells is of great current interest due to their ubiquitous presence and technological importance. Geometric imperfections and spatial variations of properties are inevitable in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Kevin Jose , Neil Ferguson , Atul Bhaskar

Maxwell's equations can be obtained in generalized coordinates by considering the electromagnetic field as an external agent. The work here presented shows how to obtain the electrodynamics for a charged particle in generalized coordinates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ana Laura Garcia-Perciante , Alfredo Sandoval-Villalbazo , L. S. Garcia-Colin

We revisit Maxwell theory in 4d with a boundary, with particular attention to the global properties of the boundary conditions, both in the free (topological) and interacting (conformal) cases. We analyze the fate of Wilson-'t Hooft lines,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Adrien Arbalestrier , Riccardo Argurio , Giovanni Galati , Elise Paznokas

The goal of this paper is to sketch a broader outline of the mathematical structures present in the Nonlinear Maxwell Theory in continuation of work presented in my previous articles. In particular, I display new types of both dynamic and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artur Sowa

In this work, we develop a potential-based formalism for Maxwell's equations in isotropic media with weak spatial dispersion within the electric quadrupole-magnetic dipole approximation. We introduce an operator form of the constitutive…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-28 Yury Solyaev