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We consider the scalar Helmholtz equation with variable, discontinuous coefficients, modelling transmission of acoustic waves through an anisotropic penetrable obstacle. We first prove a well-posedness result and a frequency-explicit bound…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Euan A. Spence

Maxwell's equations for propagation of electromagnetic waves in dispersive and absorptive (passive) media are represented in the form of the Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial \Psi/\partial t = {H}\Psi$, where ${H}$ is a linear differential…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrei G. Borisov , Sergei V. Shabanov

Superpositions of plane waves are known to approximate well the solutions of the Helmholtz equation. Their use in discretizations is typical of Trefftz methods for Helmholtz problems, aiming to achieve high accuracy with a small number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Emile Parolin , Daan Huybrechs , Andrea Moiola

This study explores the use of fractional calculus as a possible tool to model wave propagation in complex, heterogeneous media. We illustrate the methodology by focusing on elastic wave propagation in a one-dimensional periodic rod. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 John Hollkamp , Mihir Sen , Fabio Semperlotti

The paper describes a formulation of discrete scalar wave propagation in an inhomogeneous medium by the use of elementary processes obeying a discrete Huygens' principle and satisfying fundamental symmetries such as time-reversal,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel De Toro Arias , Christian Vanneste

The EM waves transmitted through a thin object with fine structures is observed, by microsphere located above the object. While the waves include both evanescent and propagating waves, the high resolution is obtained by the evanescent ones,…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-01 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Efficient numerical solution of the acoustic Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media remains challenging, particularly for large-scale problems with spatially-varying density - a limitation that restricts applications in biomedical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Antonio Stanziola , Simon R. Arridge , Bradley E. Treeby , Benjamin T. Cox

We introduce and analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for the Helmholtz problem with approximating spaces made of products of low order VEM functions and plane waves. We restrict ourselves to the 2D Helmholtz equation with impedance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Ilaria Perugia , Paola Pietra , Alessandro Russo

Based on our previous work, we propose a homogenized model of acoustic waves propagating through periodically perforated elastic plates with metamaterial properties due to embedded arrays of soft elastic inclusions serving for resonators.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 Eduard Rohan , Vladimír Lukeš

The evaluation of vector wave fields can be accurately performed by means of diffraction integrals, differential equations and also series expansions. In this paper, a Bessel series expansion which basis relies on the exact solution of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Mahin Naserpour , Carlos J. Zapata-Rodriguez

The recent results presented in arXiv:2202.05608 have led to significant developments in achieving stable approximations of Helmholtz solutions by plane wave superposition. The study shows that the numerical instability and ill-conditioning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Nicola Galante

Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems by iterative methods is a difficult task, and over the last two decades, an important research effort has gone into developing preconditioners for the simplest representative of such wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Martin J. Gander , Hui Zhang

We study the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves in randomly heterogeneous bianisotropic media with dissipative properties. For that purpose we consider randomly fluctuating optical responses of such media with correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jean-Luc Akian , Éric Savin

In this work, we develop a novel hybrid Schwarz method, termed as edge multiscale space based hybrid Schwarz (EMs-HS), for solving the Helmholtz problem with large wavenumbers. The problem is discretized using $H^1$-conforming nodal finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Shubin Fu , Shihua Gong , Guanglian Li , Yueqi Wang

We derive exact strong-contrast expansions for the effective dielectric tensor $\epeff$ of electromagnetic waves propagating in a two-phase composite random medium with isotropic components explicitly in terms of certain integrals over the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikael C. Rechtsman , Salvatore Torquato

We deal with the electromagnetic waves propagation in the harmonic regime. We derive the Foldy-Lax approximation of the scattered fields generated by a cluster of small conductive inhomogeneities arbitrarily distributed in a bounded domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Ali Bouzekri , Mourad Sini

Stationary scattering of TE and TM waves propagating in an isotropic medium with planar symmetry is described by Bergmann's equation in one dimension. This is a generalization of Helmholtz equation which allows for developing transfer…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh , Cem Yetişmişoğlu

In this paper we develop a plane wave type method for discretization of homogeneous Helmholtz equations with variable wave numbers. In the proposed method, local basis functions (on each element) are constructed by the geometric optics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Qiya Hu , Zezhong Wang

We show that radiation from complex and inherently random but correlated wave sources can be modelled efficiently by using an approach based on the Wigner distribution function. Our method exploits the connection between correlation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 Gabriele Gradoni , Stephen Creagh , Gregor Tanner , Christopher Smartt , David Thomas

In this paper, we provide the constraint energy minimization generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) to solve Helmholtz equations in heterogeneous medium. This novel multiscale method is specifically designed to overcome…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Xingguang Jin , Changqing Ye , Eric T. Chung