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The fixed energy scattering matrix is defined on a perturbed stratified medium, and for a class of perturbations, its main part is shown to be a Fourier integral operator on the sphere at infinity. This is facilitated by developing a…

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A general problem of $2\rightarrow N_f$ scattering is addressed with all the states being wave packets with arbitrary phases. Depending on these phases, one deals with coherent states in $(3+1)$ D, vortex particles with orbital angular…

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We develop a theoretical and computational approach to deal with systems that involve a disparate range of spatio-temporal scales, such as those comprised of colloidal particles or polymers moving in a fluidic molecular environment. Our…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-27 Adwait V. Datar , Maria Fyta , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

In this work, the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is assessed as a time-domain numerical approach for electromagnetic wave scattering. Owing to its explicit formulation and suitability for parallel computation on structured grids, LBM…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Mohd. Meraj Khan , Sumesh P. Thampi , Anubhab Roy

The derivation of spherical harmonics is the same in nearly every quantum mechanics textbook and classroom. It is found to be difficult to follow, hard to understand, and challenging to reproduce by most students. In this work, we show how…

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A method for the identification of small inhomogeneities from a surface data is presented in the framework of an inverse scattering problem for the Helmholtz equation. Using the assumptions of smallness of the scatterers one reduces this…

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When modeling propagation and scattering phenomena using integral equations discretized by the boundary element method, it is common practice to approximate the boundary of the scatterer with a mesh comprising elements of size approximately…

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A method is introduced for solving Einstein's equations using two distinct coordinate systems. The coordinate basis vectors associated with one system are used to project out components of the metric and other fields, in analogy with the…

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Discrete ordinate ($S_N$) and filtered spherical harmonics ($FP_N$) based schemes have been proven to be robust and accurate in solving the Boltzmann transport equation but they have their own strengths and weaknesses in different physical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Maitraya K Bhattacharyya , David Radice

Uncertainty in physical parameters can make the solution of forward or inverse light scattering problems in astrophysical, biological, and atmospheric sensing applications, cost prohibitive for real-time applications. For example, given a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Akif Khan , Murugesan Venkatapathi

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…

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The stochastic differential and integral equations describing the system of particles weakly interacting among themselves which are absorbed and scattered by particles of a medium are considered. The time-dependent transport equation with…

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Consider the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic wave by multiple well separated rigid particles in two dimensions. To avoid using the complex Green's tensor of the elastic wave equation, we utilize the Helmholtz decomposition to convert…

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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…

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An approximate method is proposed for the recovery of a compactly supported spherically-symmetric potential from the set of fixed-energy phase-shifts known for all angular momenta. The method reduces the inverse scattering problem to a…

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The article discusses how the pattern of elastic scattering of an electron on a pair of identical atomic spheres will look if we abandon the standard in the molecular physics assumption that, outside the molecular sphere, in the external…

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