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We consider the time-harmonic elastic wave scattering from a general (possibly anisotropic) inhomogeneous medium with an embedded impenetrable obstacle. We show that the impenetrable obstacle can be effectively approximated by an isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Zhengjian Bai , Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng

I present a review of the recent advancements in scattering theory, which provides a unified approach to studying dispersive and hyperbolic equations with general interaction terms and data. These equations encompass time-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Avy Soffer

We consider acoustic scattering in heterogeneous media with piecewise constant wave number. The discretization is carried out using a Galerkin boundary element method in space and Runge-Kutta convolution quadrature in time. We prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Alexander Rieder , Francisco-Javier Sayas , Jens Markus Melenk

Formulas are derived for solutions of many-body wave scattering problems by small particles in the case of acoustically soft, hard, and impedance particles embedded in an inhomogeneous medium. The case of transmission (interface) boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 A. G. Ramm

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

We explore the propagation and transformation of electromagnetic waves through spatially homogeneous yet smoothly time-dependent media within the framework of classical electrodynamics. By modelling the smooth transition, occurring during a…

Based on our previous study [IS3] on the stationary scattering theory for the Schrodinger operator on a manifold possessing an escape function we complete our investigation by doing the time-dependent counterpart. A particular class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Kenichi Ito , Erik Skibsted

In this paper, we consider acoustic or electromagnetic scattering in two dimensions from an infinite three-layer medium with thousands of wavelength-size dielectric particles embedded in the middle layer. Such geometries are typical of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jun Lai , Motoki Kobayashi , Leslie Greengard

We study wave propagation through a one-dimensional array of subwavelength resonators with periodically time-modulated material parameters. Focusing on a high-contrast regime, we use a scattering framework based on Fourier expansions and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-16 Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

We present an effective medium description of time-modulated dielectric media. By taking the averaged fields over one modulation period, the relationship between them is derived, defining therefore the different constitutive parameters. In…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 Dani Torrent

In this paper we study the dynamics of metamaterials composed of high-contrast subwavelength resonators and show the existence of localised modes in such a setting. A crucial assumption in this paper is time-modulated material parameters.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

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

In this paper, we investigate well-posedness of time-harmonic scattering of elastic waves by unbounded rigid rough surfaces in three dimensions. The elastic scattering is caused by an $L^2$ function with a compact support in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Guanghui Hu , Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

In this paper, a time domain enclosure method for an inverse obstacle scattering problem of electromagnetic wave is introduced. The wave as a solution of Maxwell's equations is generated by an applied volumetric current having an {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Masaru Ikehata

Many-body quantum-mechanical scattering problem is solved asymptotically when the size of the scatterers (inhomogeneities) tends to zero and their number tends to infinity. A method is given for calculation of the number of small…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. G. Ramm

Higher-order accurate solution to electromagnetic scattering problems are obtained at reduced computational cost in a {\it p}-variable finite volume time domain method. Spatial operators of lower, including first-order accuracy, are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 A. Chatterjee , S. M. Joshi

Elastic electron scattering is one of the primary means of investigating materials on the atomic scale. It is usually described by modeling the sample as a fixed, static, perturbative potential, thereby completely neglecting the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Stefan Löffler , Peter Schattschneider

We study the direct and inverse scattering problems when the incident electromagnetic field is a time harmonic point- generated wave in a chiral medium and the scatterer is a perfectly conducting sphere. The exact Green s function and the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Nikolaos Berketis , Christodoulos Athanasiadis

We solve the problem of electron scattering at a potential temporal step discontinuity. We show that the Schrodinger equation cannot account for scattering in this problem, necessitating resort to the Dirac equation, and that breaking gauge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Furkan Ok , Amir Bahrami , Christophe Caloz

We consider the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a penetrable thin tubular scattering object in three-dimensional free space. We establish an asymptotic representation formula for the scattered wave away from the thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Yves Capdeboscq , Roland Griesmaier , Marvin Knöller