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We propose a reconstruction method to extract the variable mass density from the elastic farfields, with a single incident direction, measured before and after injecting highly dense small scaled inclusions. We take as a model, the Lam\'e…
The waves (including acoustic, electromagnetic and elastic ones) propagating in the presence of a cluster of inhomogeneities undergo multiple interactions between them. When these inhomogeneities have sub-wavelength sizes, the dominating…
This paper unveils and investigates a novel quasi-Minnaert resonance for an elastic hard inclusion embedded in a soft homogeneous medium in the sub-wavelength regime. The quasi-Minnaert resonance consists of boundary localization and…
We deal with the electromagnetic waves propagation in the harmonic regime. We derive the Foldy-Lax approximation of the scattered fields generated by a cluster of small conductive inhomogeneities arbitrarily distributed in a bounded domain…
We measure the resonant forward scattering of light by a highly saturated atomic medium through the flashes emitted immediately after an abrupt extinction of the probe beam. The experiment is done in a dilute regime where the phenomena are…
This paper employs layer potential techniques to investigate wave scattering in two-dimensional elastic media exhibiting high contrasts in both Lam\'{e} parameters and density. Our contributions are fourfold. First, we construct an…
We study an elastic Calderon-type inverse problem: recover the mass density $\rho(x)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ from the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map associated with the isotropic Lam\'e system…
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Elastic wave propagation is studied in a heterogeneous 2-D medium consisting of an elastic matrix containing randomly distributed circular elastic inclusions. The aim of this study is to determine the effective wavenumbers when the incident…
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An analytical solution in a closed form is obtained for the three-dimensional elastic strain distribution in an unlimited medium containing an inclusion with a coordinate-dependent lattice mismatch (an eigenstrain). Quantum dots consisting…
Multiple scattering problems involving point-source excitation of lossy media are considered. The sound fluxes induced by the interactions between the scattered fields are analyzed. Theorems connecting interaction intensities (active and…
The Foldy-Lax (or the point-interaction) approximation of the electromagnetic fields generated by a cluster of small scaled inhomogeneities is derived in the mesoscale regime, i.e. when the minimum distance $\delta$ between the particles is…
We study imaging with an array of sensors that probes a medium with single frequency electromagnetic waves and records the scattered electric field. The medium is known and homogenous except for some small and penetrable inclusions. The…
We formulate an effective medium (mean field) theory of a material consisting of randomly distributed nodes connected by straight slender rods, hinged at the nodes. Defining novel wavelength-dependent effective elastic moduli, we calculate…
Embedding rigid inclusions into elastic matrix materials is a procedure of high practical relevance, for instance for the fabrication of elastic composite materials. We theoretically analyze the following situation. Rigid spherical…
In this paper, we focus on the sub-wavelength resonances in two-dimensional elastic media characterized by high contrasts in both Lam\'e parameters and density. Our contributions are fourfold. First, it is proved that the operator…
In electromagnetism, acoustics, and quantum mechanics, scattering problems can routinely be solved numerically by virtue of perfectly matched layers (PMLs) at simulation domain boundaries. Unfortunately, the same has not been possible for…
A periodically-uneven (in one horizontal direction) stress-free boundary covering a linear, isotropic, homogeneous, lossless solid half space is submitted to a vertically-propagating shear-horizontal plane, body wave. The rigorous theory of…