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Caetano et al. (Proc. R. Soc. A. 481:20230650, 2025) have proposed a formulation for sound-soft acoustic scattering by a compact scatterer O $\subset$ Rn, in which the scattered field is represented as an acoustic Newtonian potential whose…
Sound-soft fractal screens can scatter acoustic waves even when they have zero surface measure. To solve such scattering problems we make what appears to be the first application of the boundary element method (BEM) where each BEM basis…
We propose and analyse a numerical method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by a class of inhomogeneities (penetrable scatterers) with fractal boundary. Our method is based on a Galerkin discretisation of the…
This paper introduces a novel class of indirect boundary integral equation (BIE) formulations for the solution of electromagnetic scattering problems involving smooth perfectly electric conductors (PECs) in three-dimensions. These…
We present and analyse numerical quadrature rules for evaluating regular and singular integrals on self-similar fractal sets. The integration domain $\mathbb{R}^n$ is assumed to be the compact attractor of an iterated function system of…
Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…
We consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering by planar sound-soft (Dirichlet) and sound-hard (Neumann) screens embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n = 2$ or $3$. In contrast to previous studies in which the screen is assumed to be a bounded…
The interface problem describing the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a dielectric body is often formulated as a pair of coupled boundary integral equations for the electric and magnetic current densities on the…
We study boundary element methods for time-harmonic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n=2,3$) by a fractal planar screen, assumed to be a non-empty bounded subset $\Gamma$ of the hyperplane $\Gamma_\infty=\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\times \{0\}$. We…
We present a new integral equation for solving the Maxwell scattering problem against a perfect conductor. The very same algorithm also applies to sound-soft as well as sound-hard Helmholtz scattering, and in fact the latter two can be…
There has been significant recent interest in understanding the dependence on the wavenumber, $k$, of boundary integral operators (BIOs), supported on some set $\Gamma\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, that arise in the solution of BVPs for the…
We study the strongly singular volume integral equation that describes the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a penetrable obstacle. We consider the case of a cylindrical obstacle and fields invariant along the axis of the…
In this work, a new integral equation (IE) based formulation is proposed using vector and scalar potentials for electromagnetic scattering. The new integral equations feature decoupled vector and scalar potentials that satisfy Lorentz…
We study time-harmonic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n=2,3$) by a planar screen (a "crack" in the context of linear elasticity), assumed to be a non-empty bounded relatively open subset $\Gamma$ of the hyperplane $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\times…
This paper is the direct-formulation companion to [Burbano-Gallegos, P\'erez-Arancibia, and Turc, ESAIM: M2AN, 60(1):273--315, 2026], which developed indirect combined-field-only boundary integral equations (BIEs) for time-harmonic…
We present a boundary integral formulation of electromagnetic scattering by homogeneous bodies that are characterized by linear constitutive equations in the frequency domain. By working with the Cartesian components of the electric, E and…
Helmholtz decompositions of the elastic fields open up new avenues for the solution of linear elastic scattering problems via boundary integral equations (BIE) [Dong, Lai, Li, Mathematics of Computation,2021]. The main appeal of this…
Transverse magnetic (TM) scattering of an electromagnetic wave from a periodic dielectric diffraction grating can mathematically be described by a volume integral equation. This volume integral equation, however, in general fails to feature…
We consider the numerical solution of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by obstacles with uncertain geometries for Dirichlet, Neumann, impedance and transmission boundary conditions. In particular, we aim to quantify diffracted fields…
This paper presents a class of boundary integral equations for the solution of problems of electromagnetic and acoustic scattering by two dimensional homogeneous penetrable scatterers with smooth boundaries. The new integral equations,…