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We apply boundary integral equations for the first time to the two-dimensional scattering of time-harmonic waves from a smooth obstacle embedded in a continuously-graded unbounded medium. In the case we solve the square of the wavenumber…

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Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bryce Dixon , Calvin M. Hooper , Ian R. Hooper , Simon A. R. Horsley

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 wave scattering by a finite transversal strip in a discrete square-lattice waveguide with Dirichlet boundary conditions imposed on the strip and the waveguide walls. The setting is motivated as a discrete analogue of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Elena Medvedeva , Raphael Assier , Anastasia Kisil

Consider the scattering of an acoustic plane wave by a bounded elastic obstacle which is immersed in an open space filled with a homogeneous medium. This paper concerns the mathematical analysis of the coupled two- and three-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Peijun Li , Lei Zhang

We propose a boundary element method for problems of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by multiple obstacles in two dimensions, at least one of which is a convex polygon. By combining a Hybrid Numerical Asymptotic (HNA) approximation space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Andrew Gibbs , Simon Chandler-Wilde , Stephen Langdon , Andrea Moiola

We study the propagation of elastic waves in the time-harmonic regime in a waveguide which is unbounded in one direction and bounded in the two other (transverse) directions. We assume that the waveguide is thin in one of these transverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Laurent Bourgeois , Lucas Chesnel , Sonia Fliss

This paper proposes a new Helmholtz decomposition based windowed Green function (HD-WGF) method for solving the time-harmonic elastic scattering problems on a half-space with Dirichlet boundary conditions in both 2D and 3D. The Helmholtz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Tao Yin , Lu Zhang , Weiying Zheng , Xiaopeng Zhu

A variety of problems in device and materials design require the rapid forward modeling of Maxwell's equations in complex micro-structured materials. By combining high-order accurate integral equation methods with classical multiple…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-04-29 Zydrunas Gimbutas , Leslie Greengard

We present a numerical method for the solution of diffusion problems in unbounded planar regions with complex geometries of absorbing and reflecting bodies. Our numerical method applies the Laplace transform to the parabolic problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Jesse Cherry , Alan E. Lindsay , Bryan D. Quaife

This paper presents an adaptive numerical framework for solving exterior "sound-soft" scattering problems governed by the Helmholtz equation. By interpreting the Method of Fundamental Solutions through the lens of rational approximation, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Stefano Costa

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang , Jiaqing Yang

Superluminal propagation is an intrinsic problem in the diffusion equation and has not been effectively addressed for a long time. In this work, a rigorous solution to this issue is obtained under the assumption that particles undergo a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

We are concerned with the acoustic scattering problem by many small rigid obstacles of arbitrary shapes. We give a sufficient condition on the number $M$ and the diameter $a$ of the obstacles as well as the minimum distance $d$ between them…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Durga Prasad Challa , Mourad Sini

In this paper, we present a mathematical study of wave scattering by a hard elastic obstacle embedded in a soft elastic body in three dimensions. Our contributions are threefold. First, we characterize subwavelength resonances using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Bochao Chen , Yixian Gao , Peijun Li , Yuanchun Ren

We investigate the statistics of encounters of a diffusing particle with different subsets of the boundary of a confining domain. The encounters with each subset are characterized by the boundary local time on that subset. We extend a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-14 Denis S. Grebenkov

Analytical methods are fundamental in studying acoustics problems. One of the important tools is the Wiener-Hopf method, which can be used to solve many canonical problems with sharp transitions in boundary conditions on a plane/plate.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Matthew Nethercote , Anastasia Kisil , Raphael Assier

Diffusion in inhomogeneous materials can be described by both the Fick and Fokker--Planck diffusion equations. Here, we study a mixed Fick and Fokker-Planck diffusion problem with coefficients rapidly oscillating both in space and time. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Micol Amar , Daniele Andreucci , Emilio N. M. Cirillo

Multi-layered structures are widely used in the construction of metamaterial devices to realize various cutting-edge waveguide applications. This paper makes several contributions to the mathematical analysis of subwavelength resonances in…

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