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We perform numerical simulations of the dynamical equations for free water surface in finite basin in presence of gravity. Wave Turbulence (WT) is a theory derived for describing statistics of weakly nonlinear waves in the infinite basin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri V. Lvov , Sergey Nazarenko , Boris Pokorni

Collaborative visual perception methods have gained widespread attention in the autonomous driving community in recent years due to their ability to address sensor limitation problems. However, the absence of explicit depth information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shaohong Wang , Bin Lu , Xinyu Xiao , Hanzhi Zhong , Bowen Pang , Tong Wang , Zhiyu Xiang , Hangguan Shan , Eryun Liu

Modelling radar wave propagation in frequency domain is appealing in full waveform inversion because it allows decreasing the non-linearity of the problem, decreasing the dimension of the data space, better description of attenuation, and…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Doyon Bernard , Giroux Bernard

Numerical inspection of wide-angle (WA) or ultra-wide-angle (UWA) computer-generated holograms (CGH) is a computationally demanding task. To surpass this limitation, we propose a novel computational approach for fast and accurate WA-CGH…

In many physical situations involving diverse length scales, waves or rays representing them travel through media characterized by spatially smooth, random, modest refactive index variations. "Primary" diffraction (by individual…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Eric J Heller , Ragnar Fleischmann , Tobias Kramer

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

We introduce bidirectional edge diffraction response function (BEDRF), a new approach to model wave diffraction around edges with path tracing. The diffraction part of the wave is expressed as an integration on path space, and the wave-edge…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chunxiao Cao , Zili An , Zhong Ren , Dinesh Manocha , Kun Zhou

Spatially 3-dimensional seismic full waveform inversion (3D FWI) is a highly nonlinear and computationally demanding inverse problem that constructs 3D subsurface seismic velocity structures using seismic waveform data. To characterise…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Xuebin Zhao , Andrew Curtis

This study applies the RBF wavelet series to the evaluation of analytical solutions of linear time-dependent wave and diffusion problems of any dimensionality and geometry. To the best of the author's knowledge, such analytical solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W. Chen

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a successful and well-established inverse method for reconstructing material models from measured wave signals. In the field of seismic exploration, FWI has proven particularly successful in the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tim Bürchner , Philipp Kopp , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Ernst Rank

We present an analytical derivation of the coupling parameter relating the angle between two interfering beams in a heterodyne interferometer to the differential phase-signals detected by a quadrant photo-diode. This technique, also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-21 Gerald Hechenblaikner

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is an effective method for imaging subsurface properties using sparsely recorded data. It involves solving a wave propagation problem to estimate model parameters that accurately reproduce the data. Recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Ali Gholami

The present work proposes to use density-functional theory (DFT) to correct for the basis-set error of wave-function theory (WFT). One of the key ideas developed here is to define a range-separation parameter which automatically adapts to a…

The field-theoretic wavefunction has received renewed attention with the goal of better understanding observables at the boundary of de Sitter spacetime and studying the interior of Minkowski or general FLRW spacetime. Understanding the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Mang Hei Gordon Lee

Refraction and diffraction of waves in natural crystals and artificial crystals formed by anisotropically scattering centers are considered. A detailed study of the electromagnetic wave refraction in a two-dimensional photonic crystal…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-30 V. G. Baryshevsky , E. A. Gurnevich

This contribution presents a novel Windowed Green Function (WGF) method for the solution of problems of wave propagation, scattering and radiation for structures which include open (dielectric) waveguides, waveguide junctions, as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Oscar Bruno , Emmanuel Garza , Carlos Perez-Arancibia

Waveform Relaxation method (WR) is a beautiful algorithm to solve Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). However, because of its poor convergence capability, it was rarely used. In this paper, we propose a new distributed algorithm, named…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-09 Fei Wei , Huazhong Yang

Wavefront sensing is a widely-used non-interferometric, single-shot, and quantitative technique providing the spatial-phase of a beam. The phase is obtained by integrating the measured wavefront gradient. Complex and random wavefields…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-09 Tengfei Wu , Pascal Berto , Marc Guillon

Wavefront sensing involves estimating the phase and intensity of light, enabling a wide range of imaging applications, from adaptive optics and astronomy to biomedical imaging. Since conventional image sensors can only measure the spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Nebiyou Yismaw , Vishwanath Saragadam , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , M. Salman Asif

Computational imaging plays a vital role in various scientific and medical applications, such as Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), Computed Tomography (CT), and Electromagnetic (EM) inversion. These methods address inverse problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yinan Feng , Yinpeng Chen , Yueh Lee , Youzuo Lin