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In order to analyze the wave propagation in three-dimensional isotropic and viscoelastic body, the Cauchy initial value problem on unbounded domain is considered for the wave equation written as a system of fractional partial differential…

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I present a simple algorithm based on a type of partial reverse-engineering that generates an unlimited number of exact analytical solutions to the Schrodinger equation for a general time-dependent two-level Hamiltonian. I demonstrate this…

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The highly convergent iterative methods developed by Trujillo Bueno and Fabiani Bendicho (1995) for radiative transfer (RT) applications are generalized to spherical symmetry with velocity fields. These RT methods are based on Jacobi,…

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