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The wave equation is time-reversal invariant. The enclosure method using a Neumann data generated by this invariance is introduced. The method yields the minimum ball that is centered at a given arbitrary point and encloses an unknown…

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This paper is concerned with resolvent estimates on the real axis for the Helmholtz equation posed in the exterior of a bounded obstacle with Dirichlet boundary conditions when the obstacle is trapping. There are two resolvent estimates for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Simon N. Chandler-Wilde , Euan A. Spence , Andrew Gibbs , Valery P. Smyshlyaev

We consider the stability in the inverse problem consisting in the determination of an electric potential $q$, appearing in a Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for the wave equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+q(x)u=0$ in an unbounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Yavar Kian

We present a semi-analytical approach to compute quasi-guided elastic wave modes in horizontally layered structures radiating into unbounded fluid or solid media. This problem is of relevance, e.g., for the simulation of guided ultrasound…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Hauke Gravenkamp , Bor Plestenjak , Daniel A. Kiefer , Elias Jarlebring

We consider singular perturbed eigenvalue problem for Laplace operator in a two-dimensional domain. In the boundary we select a set depending on a character small parameter and consisting of a great number of small disjoint parts. On this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Denis I. Borisov

We consider a waveguide-like domain consisting of two thin straight tubular domains connected through a tiny window. The perpendicular size of this waveguide is of order $\varepsilon$. Under the assumption that the window is appropriately…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Giuseppe Cardone , Andrii Khrabustovskyi

We study the boundary value problem for nonlinear fourth-order partial differential equation with jumping nonlinearity which can serve, e.g., as a model of an asymmetrically supported bending beam. We focus on a special type of solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Hana Formánková Levá , Gabriela Holubová

A Rayleigh wave is a type of surface wave that propagates in the boundary of an elastic solid with traction (or Neumann) boundary conditions. Since the 1980s much work has been done on the problem of constructing a leading term in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Aric Wheeler , Mark Williams

In this paper, we provide uniform bounds for convergence rates of the low frequencies of a parametric family of problems for the Laplace operator posed on a rectangular perforated domain of the plane of height $H$. The perforations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Delfina Gómez , Sergei A. Nazarov , Rafael Orive-Illera , Maria-Eugenia Pérez-Martínez

Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

We consider the buckling eigenvalue problem for a clamped plate in the annulus. We identify the first eigenvalue in dependence of the inner radius, and study the number of nodal domains of the corresponding eigenfunctions. Moreover, in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Davide Buoso , Enea Parini

We study a one-dimensional one-phase Stefan problem with a Neumann boundary condition on the fixed part of the boundary. We construct the unique self-similar solution, and show that starting from arbitrary initial data, solution orbits…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Danielle Hilhorst , Sabrina Roscani , Piotr Rybka

We study a Helmholtz-type spectral problem related to the propagation of electromagnetic waves in photonic crystal waveguides. The waveguide is created by introducing a linear defect into a two-dimensional periodic medium. The defect is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Malcolm Brown , Vu Hoang , Michael Plum , Ian Wood

An algorithm named EigenWave is described to compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors of elliptic boundary value problems. The algorithm, based on the recently developed WaveHoltz scheme, solves a related time-dependent wave equation as part of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Daniel Appelo , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Ngan Le , Donald W. Schwendeman

Equilateral triangular waveguides are one of the very few special kind of waveguides, whose field solutions can be constructed without necessarily solving the Maxwell's equations. Solutions can be obtained simply by superposing some plane…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Francis Emenike Onah , Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega

We examine perturbations of eigenvalues and resonances for a class of multi-channel quantum mechanical model-Hamiltonians describing a particle interacting with a localized spin in dimension $d=1,2,3$. We consider unperturbed Hamiltonians…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Claudio Cacciapuoti , Raffaele Carlone , Rodolfo Figari

We prove for the first time an epiperimetric inequality for the thin obstacle Weiss' energy with odd frequencies and we apply it to solutions to the thin obstacle problem with general $C^{k,\gamma}$. In particular, we obtain the rate of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Matteo Carducci , Bozhidar Velichkov

For the Helmholtz equation posed in the exterior of a Dirichlet obstacle, we prove that if there exists a family of quasimodes (as is the case when the exterior of the obstacle has stable trapped rays), then there exist near-zero…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Jeffrey Galkowski , Pierre Marchand , Euan A. Spence

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

Surface plasmon modes supported by graphene ribbon waveguides are studied and classified. The properties of both modes with the field concentration within the ribbon area (waveguiding modes) and on the edges (edge modes) are discussed. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Yu. Nikitin , F. Guinea , F. J. Garcia-Vidal , L. Martin-Moreno