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We numerically investigate the sensitivity of the scattered wave field to perturbations in the shape of a scattering body illuminated by an incident plane wave. This study is motivated by recent work on the inverse problem of reconstructing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Erik García Neefjes , Stuart C. Hawkins

In this paper, we give a positive answer to a challenging open problem for recovering unknown obstacle (which is usually referred to as a scatterer) by acoustic wave probe associated to the Helmholtz equation. We show that the acoustic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Genqian Liu

We compute the Bohmian trajectories of the incoming scattering plane waves for Klein's potential step in explicit form. For finite norm incoming scattering solutions we derive their asymptotic space-time localization and we compute some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gebhard Gruebl , Raimund Moser , Klaus Rheinberger

I find nearly plane-wave solutions for the Gauss-Ampere law for the 4-vector potential, subject to the Lorenz gauge condition, in the spacetime of a plane gravitational plane wave. I assume that the gravitational wave is weak, in the sense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-05 Carl R. Gwinn

We investigate the fractional dispersion of solutions to the Helmholtz equation with periodic scattering data. We show that, under appropriate rescaling, the interaction between the different frequencies exhibits the same fluctuating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Javier Canto , Nico Michele Schiavone , Luis Vega

We have shown that the wave scattering by a soliton occurs in a peculiar way. The nonlinear interaction leads to the generation of waves with frequencies that are multiples of the frequency of the incident wave, minus the frequency of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-12 A. S. Dmitriev , E. A. Dmitrieva , A. G. Panin

We consider the wave equation for sound in a moving fluid with a fourth-order anomalous dispersion relation. The velocity of the fluid is a linear function of position, giving two points in the flow where the fluid velocity matches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-29 T. G. Philbin

The so-called Scattering Equations which govern the kinematics of the scattering of massless particles in arbitrary dimensions have recently been cast into a system of homogeneous polynomials. We study these as affine and projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Yang-Hui He , Cyril Matti , Chuang Sun

We study the scattering of monochromatic planar scalar waves in a geometry that interpolates between the Schwarzschild solution, regular black holes and traversable wormhole spacetimes. We employ the partial waves approach to compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-21 Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Carolina L. Benone , Luís C. B. Crispino

withdrawn Several symmetry problems are discussed. These include the Pompeiu problem and similar conjectures for the heat and wave equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

The linear system of differential equations for determination of transmission and reflection amplytudes of scattered electron in the field of one dimensional arbitrary potential is obtained. It is shown that in general the scattering…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-17 David M. Sedrakian , Ashot Zh. Khachatrian

We study the scattering of scalar waves propagating on the global monopole background. Since the scalar wave operator in this topological defect is not essentially self-adjoint, its solutions are not uniquely determined until a boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 J. P. M. Pitelli , V. S. Barroso , Maurício Richartz

The general space-time evolution of the scattering of an incident acoustic plane wave pulse by an arbitrary configuration of targets is treated by employing a recently developed non-singular boundary integral method to solve the Helmholtz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Evert Klaseboer , Shahrokh Sepehrirahnama , Derek Y. C. Chan

We study scattering of waves by black holes. Solving a massless scalar field with a point source in the Schwarzschild spacetime, waves scattered by the black hole is obtained numerically. We then reconstruct images of the black hole from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Ken-ichiro Kanai , Yasusada Nambu

A solution of the scattering problem is obtained for the Schr\"odinger equation with the potential of induced dipole interaction, which decreases as the inverse square of the distance. Such a potential arises in the collision of an incident…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 V. A. Gradusov , S. L. Yakovlev

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by an obstacle is analyzed through a set of partial differential equations combining the Maxwell's model with the mechanics of fluids. Solitary type EM waves, having compact support, may easily be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Daniele Funaro , Eugene Kashdan

In all of the diverse areas of science where waves play an important role, one of the most fundamental solutions of the corresponding wave equation is a stationary wave with constant intensity. The most familiar example is that of a plane…

In this paper, we study the scattering problem of the scalar wave in the traversable Lorentzian wormhole geometry. The potentials and Schr\"odinger-like equations are found in cases of the static uncharged and the charged wormholes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sung-Won Kim

Black hole (BH) perturbation theory and the scattering models provide a powerful framework for studying gravitational lensing at the wave-optics level. However, conventional calculations encountered two issues: the divergence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Zhao Li , Wen Zhao

In this paper we consider an inverse problem for the $n$-dimensional random Schr\"{o}dinger equation $(\Delta-q+k^2)u = 0$. We study the scattering of plane waves in the presence of a potential $q$ which is assumed to be a Gaussian random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Pedro Caro , Tapio Helin , Matti Lassas