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Spectral methods, thanks to their high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the collisional kinetic equations of Boltzmann type, such as the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation. This…

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Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. In this paper, a novel boundary integral formulation is proposed and its highly accurate…

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The propagation of charged particles through a scattering medium in the presence of a magnetic field can be described by a Fokker-Planck equation with Lorentz force. This model is studied both, from a theoretical and a numerical point of…

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The paper describes a numerical method for solving acoustic multibody scattering problems in two and three dimensions. The idea is to compute a highly accurate approximation to the scattering operator for each body through a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Yunhui Cai , Joar Bagge , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This paper is concerned with the efficient numerical treatment of 1D stationary Schr\"odinger equations in the semi-classical limit when including a turning point of first order. For the considered scattering problems we show that the wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Anton Arnold , Kirian Döpfner

A method is described by which a function defined on a cubic grid (as from a finite difference solution of a partial differential equation) can be resolved into spherical harmonic components at some fixed radius. This has applications to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Charles W. Misner

Considering the problem of scattering of charged particles, we introduce a new approach of taking the Coulomb interaction into account within the HORSE formalism. Compared to the conventional HORSE approach for uncharged particles, we add a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Ustin M Yanikov , Vasily A Kulikov , Andrey M Shirokov

Quantum theoretical treatment of coherent forward scattering of light in a polarized atomic ensemble with an arbitrary angular momentum is developed. We consider coherent forward scattering of a weak radiation field interacting with a…

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Heterogeneous media constitute random disordered environments where transport is drastically hindered. Employing extensive molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of tracer particles in the Lorentz model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-14 Markus Spanner , Simon K. Schnyder , Felix Höfling , Thomas Voigtmann , Thomas Franosch

In this paper,we present a detailed formulation to solve the scattering wave function for a multi-terminal mesoscopic system with spin-orbit coupling. In addition to terminal currents, all local quantities can be calculated explicitly by…

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We describe a method for numerically incorporating electron--electron scattering in quantum wells for small deviations of the distribution function from equilibrium, within the framework of the Boltzmann equation. For a given temperature…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , Karsten Flensberg

In this pedagogically structured article, we describe a generalized harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations in spherical symmetry which is regular at the origin. The generalized harmonic approach has attracted significant attention…

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We develop a spectral method for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation using Burnett polynomials in the basis functions. Using the sparsity of the coefficients in the expansion of the collision term, the computational cost is reduced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Zhenning Cai , Yuwei Fan , Yanli Wang

Let $M$ be a scattering manifold, i.e., a Riemannian manifold with asymptotically conic structure, and let $H$ be a Schr\"odinger operator on $M$. We can construct a natural time-dependent scattering theory for $H$ with a suitable reference…

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This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

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We describe a technique for solving the combined collisionless Boltzmann and Poisson equations in a discretised, or lattice, phase space. The time and the positions and velocities of `particles' take on integer values, and the forces are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Syer , S. Tremaine

We study spherically symmetric spacetimes for matter distributions with isotropic pressures. We generate new exact solutions to the Einstein field equations which also contains isotropic pressures. We develop an algorithm that produces a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-23 S. Ngubelanga , S. D. Maharaj

Approximated numerical techniques, for the solution of the elastic wave scattering problem over semi-infinite domains are reviewed. The approximations involve the representation of the half-space by a boundary condition described in terms…

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We extend previous work concerning rest-frame partial-wave mixing in Hamiltonian effective field theory to both elongated and moving systems, where two particles are in a periodic elongated cube or have nonzero total momentum, respectively.…

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The scattering of electromagnetic waves by an obstacle is analyzed through a set of partial differential equations combining the Maxwell's model with the mechanics of fluids. Solitary type EM waves, having compact support, may easily be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Daniele Funaro , Eugene Kashdan