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We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems. The main focus is on plane waves scattered by smoothly varying material inhomogeneities. The proposed method works for any frequency $\omega$, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

In recent papers (arXiv:2407.16507, arXiv:2408.05158) we presented results suggesting the existence of a new class of time-periodic solutions to the defocusing cubic wave equation on a one-dimensional interval with Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Filip Ficek , Maciej Maliborski

A first-order relativistic wave equation is constructed in five dimensions. Its solutions are eight-component spinors, which are interpreted as single-particle fermion wave functions in four-dimensional spacetime. Use of a ``cylinder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Redington , M. A. K. Lodhi

Wavelets are a powerful new mathematical tool which offers the possibility to treat in a natural way quantities characterized by several length scales. In this article we will show how wavelets can be used to solve partial differential…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Stefan Goedecker , Oleg Ivanov

This paper is dedicated to addressing the simultaneous inversion problem involving the initial value and space-dependent source term in a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. Firstly, we establish the uniqueness of the inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yun Zhang , Xiaoli Feng , Xiongbin Yan

We found a simple procedure for the solution of the time - independent Schrodinger equation in one dimension without making any approximation. The wave functions are always periodic. Two difficulties may be encountered: one is to solve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. H. Erbil

A new iterative technique is presented for solving of initial value problem for certain classes of multidimensional linear and nonlinear partial differential equations. Proposed iterative scheme does not require any discretization,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Josef Rebenda , Zdeněk Šmarda

Calculations of the Fourier transform of a constant quantity over an area or volume defined by polygons (connected vertices) are often useful in modeling wave scattering, or in fourier-space filtering of real-space vector-based volumes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Brian B. Maranville

An initial-boundary value problem for the $n$-dimensional wave equation is considered. A three-level explicit in time and conditionally stable 4th-order compact scheme constructed recently for $n=2$ and the square mesh is generalized to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Alexander Zlotnik

The time-fractional diffusion-wave equation is revisited, where the time derivative is of order $2 \nu$ and $0 < \nu \le 1$. The behaviour of the equation is "diffusion-like" (respectively, "wave-like") when $0 < \nu \le \frac{1}{2}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Marianito R. Rodrigo

For a class of scalar partial differential equations that incorporate convection, diffusion, and possibly dispersion in one space and one time dimension, the stability of traveling wave solutions is investigated. If the initial perturbation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hans Engler

An inverse boundary value problem for the 1+1 dimensional wave equation $(\partial_t^2 - c(x)^2 \partial_x^2)u(x,t)=0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}_+$ is considered. We give a discrete regularization strategy to recover wave speed $c(x)$ when we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Jussi Korpela , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen

In classical continuum physics, a wave is a mechanical disturbance. Whether the disturbance is stationary or traveling and whether it is caused by the motion of atoms and molecules or the vibration of a lattice structure, a wave can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-14 Ivan C. Christov

We establish inversion formulas of the so called filtered back-projection type to recover a function supported in the ball in even dimensions from its spherical means over spheres centered on the boundary of the ball. We also find several…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Finch , M. Haltmeier , Rakesh

We prove estimates for solutions of the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous wave equation on $\R^{1+n}$ in a class of Banach spaces whose norms only depend on the size of the space-time Fourier transform. The estimates are local in time,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sigmund Selberg

A new method of solution is proposed for solution of the wave equation in one space dimension with continuously-varying coefficients. By considering all paths along which information arrives at a given point, the solution is expressed as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Jithin D. George , David I. Ketcheson , Randall J. LeVeque

Dealing with the inverse source problem for the scalar wave equation, we have shown recently that we can reconstruct the space-time dependent source function from the measurement of the wave, collected at a single point $x$ for a large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Soumen Senapati , Mourad Sini , Haibing Wang

Discrete transformation for 3- waves problem is constructed in explicit form. Generalization of this system on the matrix case in three dimensional space together with corresponding discrete transformation is presented also.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 A. N. Leznov , R. Torres-Cordoba

A one-dimensional stochastic wave equation driven by a general stochastic measure is studied in this paper. The Fourier series expansion of stochastic measures is considered. It is proved that changing the integrator by the corresponding…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Vadym Radchenko , Nelia Stefans'ka

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of identifying the initial data in a fractionally damped wave equation from time trace measurements on a surface, as relevant in photoacoustic or thermoacoustic tomography. We derive and analyze…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Anna Schlintl