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Solving the wave equation is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental problems we face as we try to illuminate the Earth using recorded seismic data. The Helmholtz equation provides wavefield solutions that are dimensionally reduced,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Umair bin Waheed , Qi Hao

The Helmholtz equation in one dimension, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves in effectively one-dimensional systems, is equivalent to the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The fact that the potential term…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We study non-scattering phenomena associated with the time-harmonic Helmholtz equation in two dimensions. For very general classes of star-shaped domains, we show that there are at most finitely many wave numbers such that Herglotz incident…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Michael S. Vogelius , Jingni Xiao

The scattering of wave packets from a single slit and a double slit with the Schr\"odinger equation, is studied numerically and theoretically. The phenomenon of diffraction of wave packets in space and time in the backward region,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Kälbermann

In this article, we study the inverse scattering problem for the nonlinear fractional Helmholtz equation with cubic nonlinearity in three dimensions, where we recover a compactly supported potential from scattering amplitude.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Saumyajit Das , Susovan Pramanik

In this paper, scattering of incident plane waves from rough surfaces have been modeled in a fractional space. It is shown how wave scattering from a rough surface, could be a simple reflection problem in a fractional space. In the integer…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-31 H. Safdari , M. Vahabi , G. R. Jafari

We consider Einstein's equations coupled to the Euler equations in plane symmetry, with compact spatial slices and constant mean curvature time. We show that for a wide variety of equations of state and a large class of initial data,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-11 Alan D. Rendall , Fredrik Ståhl

The scattering of waves by obstacles in a 2D setting is considered, in particular the computation of the scattered field via the collocation or the least-squares methods. In the case of multiple scattering by smooth obstacles, we prove that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Gilles Chardon

The radiation condition is the key question in the mathematical modelling for scattering problems in unbounded domains. Mathematically, it plays the role as the "boundary condition" at the infinity, which guarantees the well-posedness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Ruming Zhang

We address the direct scattering problem for a penetrable obstacle in an infinite elastic two--dimensional Kirchhoff--Love plate. Under the assumption that the plate's thickness is small relative to the wavelength of the incident wave, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Rafael Ceja Ayala , Isaac Harris , Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

In this paper we survey some recent results concerning scattering and non-scattering in the context of the linear Helmholtz equation and inhomogeneities of nontrivial contrast. We examine isotropic as well as anisotropic media. Part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Fioralba Cakoni , Michael S. Vogelius

Distorted plane waves, sometimes called Eisenstein functions, are a family of eigenfunctions of a Schr\"odinger operator that are not square integrable. More precisely, they can be written as the sum of a plane wave and an outgoing wave. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Maxime Ingremeau

A numerical approach to the problem of wave scattering by many small particles is developed under the assumptions k<<1, d>>a, where a is the size of the particles and d is the distance between the neighboring particles. On the wavelength…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-18 M. I. Andriychuk , A. G. Ramm

The wave equation for spinless particles with the Lorentz violating term is considered. We formulate the third-order in derivatives wave equation leading to the modified dispersion relation. The first-order formalism is considered and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-04 S. I. Kruglov

A rigorous reduction of the many-body wave scattering problem to solving a linear algebraic system is given bypassing solving the usual system of integral equation. The limiting case of infinitely many small particles embedded into a medium…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm

In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic waves by an unbounded rough interface with a buried impenetrable obstacle. We first study the well-posedness of the direct problem with a local source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Yulong Lu , Bo Zhang

This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

High frequency estimates for the Dirichlet-to-Neumann and Neumann-to-Dirichlet operators are obtained for the Helmholtz equation in the exterior of bounded obstacles. These a priori estimates are used to study the scattering of plane waves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-18 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

We study the canonical problem of wave scattering by periodic arrays, either of infinite or finite extent, of Neumann scatterers in the plane; the characteristic lengthscale of the scatterers is considered small relative to the lattice…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Richard Wiltshaw , Richard V. Craster , Mehul P. Makwana

We consider wave scattering from a system of highly contrasting resonators with time-modulated material parameters. In this setting, the wave equation reduces to a system of coupled Helmholtz equations that models the scattering problem. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff