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When using the boundary integral equation method to solve a boundary value problem, the evaluation of the solution near the boundary is challenging to compute because the layer potentials that represent the solution are nearly-singular…
We obtain a nonperturbative, analytical solution to integral equation of scattering theory by assuming the field within the scattering object is a spherical wave with a scattering amplitude equal to that of the far field. This approximation…
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The solution to the initial and Dirichlet boundary value problem for a semilinear, one dimensional heat equation is approximated by a numerical method that combines the Besse relaxation scheme in time (C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris S{\'e}r. I,…
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A method for the fast and accurate solution of the radiative transfer equation in plane-parallel media with coherent isotropic scattering is presented. This largely analytical approach uses the formalism of meromorphic functions in order to…
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