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In a recent article the authors showed that the radiative Transfer equations with multiple frequencies and scattering can be formulated as a nonlinear integral system. In the present article, the formulation is extended to handle reflective…

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The problem of radio wave reflection from an optically thick plane monotonous layer of magnetized plasma is considered at present work. The plasma electron density irregularities are described by spatial spectrum of an arbitrary form. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 N. A. Zabotin , A. G. Bronin

The formalism of the scattering matrix is applied to describe the transmission properties of multilayered structures with deep variations of the refractive index and arbitrary arrangements of the layers. We show that there is an exact…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-22 Victor Grigoriev , Fabio Biancalana

We introduce a numerical method that enables efficient modelling of light scattering by large, disordered ensembles of non-spherical particles incorporated in stratified media, including when the particles are in close vicinity to each…

The problem of radio wave reflection from an optically thick plane monotonous layer of magnetized plasma is considered at present work. The plasma electron density irregularities are described by spatial spectrum of an arbitrary form. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Zabotin , A. G. Bronin , G. A. Zhbankov

We propose a boundary integral formulation for the dynamic problem of electromagnetic scattering and transmission by homogeneous dielectric obstacles. In the spirit of Costabel and Stephan, we use the transmission conditions to reduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

The calculation of the transfer matrix for a large non-periodic multilayered system may become unstable in the presence of absorption. We discuss the origin of this instability and we explore two methods to overcome it: the use of a total…

Context. The numerical modeling of the generation and transfer of polarized radiation is a key task in solar and stellar physics research and has led to a relevant class of discrete problems that can be reframed as linear systems. In order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Gioele Janett , Pietro Benedusi , Luca Belluzzi , Rolf Krause

In this paper, we consider a numerical method to solve scattering problems with multi-periodic layers with different periodicities. The main tool applied in this paper is the Bloch transform. With this method, the problem is written into an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Ruming Zhang

A multilayered particle is illuminated by plane acoustic or electromagnetic waves of one or several frequencies. We consider the inverse scattering problem for the identification of the layers and of the refraction coefficients of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Semion Gutman

The transfer-matrix method is a standard approach to wave propagation in stratified media. With the advent of cold-atom-based quantum and photonic technologies, several experiments and many proposals consider light propagation in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Igor M. Sokolov , William Guerin

Random sequential adsorption algorithm is a popular tool for modelling structure of monolayers built in irreversible adsorption experiments. However, this algorithm becomes very inefficient when the density of molecules in a layer rises.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Michał Cieśla

The development of fast numerical methods for multilevel radiative transfer (RT) applications often leads to important breakthroughs in astrophysics, because they allow the investigation of problems that could not be properly tackled using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno

We propose a divide-and-conquer algorithm to find recursively the Scattering matrix of general tight-binding structures. The Scattering matrix allows a direct calculation of transport properties in mesoscopic systems by using the Landauer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Mauricio J. Rodríguez , Carlos Ramírez

Scattering by an isolated defect embedded in a dielectric medium of two dimensional periodicity is of interest in many sub-fields of electrodynamics. Present approaches to compute this scattering rely either on the Born approximation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Kuljit S. Virk

We develop a transfer-matrix formulation of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a general isotropic medium which makes use of a notion of electromagnetic transfer matrix $\mathbf{M}$ that does not involve slicing of the scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

Harmonic generation in the scattered fields produced by a dielectric sphere coated with a time-varying conductive shell is studied using a Mie theory approach hybridized with conversion matrix methods. Analytic results are derived for plane…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kurt Schab , Bradley Shirley , K. C. Kerby-Patel

In this paper, we use a straightforward numerical method to solve scattering models in one-dimensional lattices based on a tight-binding band structure. We do this by using the wave packet approach to scattering, which presents a more…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Staelens , F. Marsiglio

Particle distribution functions evolving under the Lorentz operator can be simulated with the Langevin equation for pitch angle scattering. This approach is frequently used in particle based Monte-Carlo simulations of plasma collisions,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Xin Zhang , Yichen Fu , Hong Qin

In previous papers of this series, we presented a formalism able to account for both statistical equilibrium of a multilevel atom and coherent and incoherent scatterings (partial redistribution). aims: This paper provides theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 V. Bommier