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This paper presents a novel approach for computing substructure characteristic modes. This method leverages electromagnetic scattering matrices and spherical wave expansion to directly decompose electromagnetic fields. Unlike conventional…

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We present a general mechanistic model of mass diffusion for a composite sphere placed in a large ambient medium. The multi-layer problem is described by a system of diffusion equations coupled via interlayer boundary conditions such as…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Elliot J. Carr , Giuseppe Pontrelli

In this paper, an efficient iterative method is proposed for solving multiple scattering problem in locally inhomogeneous media. The key idea is to enclose the inhomogeneity of the media by well separated artificial boundaries and then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Ziqing Xie , Rui Zhang , Bo Wang , Li-lian Wang

The multiple scattering method T-matrix (MSTMM) can be used to solve the electromagnetic response of systems consisting of many compact scatterers, retaining a good level of accuracy while using relatively few degrees of freedom, largely…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-16 Marek Nečada , Päivi Törmä

We develop a transfer matrix formalism for four-flux radiative transfer models, which is ideally suited for studying transport through multiple scattering layers. The model, derived for spherical particles within the diffusion…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Brian Slovick , Zachary Flom , Lucas Zipp , Srini Krishnamurthy

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation for atomic and molecular collisions. The algorithm is based on the $S$-matrix version of the Kohn variational principle, which computes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Xiaodong Xing , Alejandro Gomez Cadavid , Artur F. Izmaylov , Timur V. Tscherbul

This paper presents a robust numerical solution to the electromagnetic scattering problem involving multiple multi-layered cavities in both transverse magnetic and electric polarizations. A transparent boundary condition is introduced at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Jun Lai , Peijun Li

This note proposes rapidly convergent computational formulae for evaluating scattering kernels from radiative transfer theory. The approach used here does not rely on Legendre expansions, but rather uses exponentially convergent numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Hans Engler

The atmospheres of planets (including Earth) and the outer layers of stars have often been treated in radiative transfer as plane-parallel media, instead of spherical shells, which can lead to inaccuracy, e.g. limb darkening. We give an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael J. Caola

We describe a highly flexible framework to solve 3D radiation transfer problems in scattering dominated environments based on a long characteristics piece-wise parabolic formal solution and an operator splitting method. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

The multiple scattering of an ultrashort laser pulse by a turbid dispersive medium (namely a cloud of bubbles in water) is investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The theory of Gouesbet and Gr\'ehan [Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 17…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Geoffroy Chaussonnet , Loïc Mees , Miloš Šormaz , Patrick Jenny , Philippe M. Bardet

The numerically stable evaluation of scattering matrix elements near the infrared limit of gauge theories is of great importance for the success of collider physics experiments. We present a novel algorithm that utilizes double precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Enrico Bothmann , John M. Campbell , Stefan Höche , Max Knobbe

Despite the quantum nature of the process, collective scattering by dense cold samples of two-level atoms can be interpreted classically describing the sample as a macroscopic object with a complex refractive index. We demonstrate that…

In this paper, we propose a unified algorithmic framework for solving many known variants of \mds. Our algorithm is a simple iterative scheme with guaranteed convergence, and is \emph{modular}; by changing the internals of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Arvind Agarwal , Jeff M. Phillips , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

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The improvement in observational facilities requires refining the modelling of the geometrical structures of astrophysical objects. Nevertheless, for complex problems such as line overlap in molecules showing hyperfine structure, a detailed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 F. Daniel , J. Cernicharo

Transfer matrix method is a well-known and extensively used tool to compute the reflection and transmission coefficients of electromagnetic waves when interacting with a system of layers parallel to each other. We present here a modified…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-14 Srinivas Ganganagunta

Non-LTE radiative transfer is a key tool for modern astrophysics: it is the means by which many key synthetic observables are produced, thus connecting simulations and observations. Radiative transfer models also inform our understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Christopher M. J. Osborne , Alexander Sannikov

A new iterative method for non-LTE multilevel polarized radiative transfer in hydrogen lines is presented. Iterative methods (such as the Jacobi method) tend to damp out high-frequency components of the error fast, but converges poorly due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jiri Stepan