English
Related papers

Related papers: Generalized Paraxial Ray Trace Procedure Derived f…

200 papers

The increasing use of freeform optical surfaces raises the demand for optical design tools developed for generalized systems. In the design process surface-by-surface aberration contributions are of special interest. The expansion of the…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-02 Mateusz Oleszko , Ralf Hambach , Herbert Gross

An exact generalization of the Ramsey transition probability is derived to improve ultra-high precision measurement and quantum state engineering when a particle is subjected to independently-tailored separated oscillating fields. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 T. Zanon-Willette , V. I. Yudin , A. V. Taichenachev

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Nassir Navab

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) appear in many disciplines to model the evolution of various mathematical objects, such as probability flows, value functions in control theory, and derivative prices in finance. It is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingzi Xu , Ali Hasan , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

The Westervelt equation describes the propagation of pressure waves in continuous nonlinear and, eventually, diffusive media. The classical framework of this equation corresponds to fluid dynamics theory. This work seeks to connect this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Mariano Caruso , Guillermo Rus , Juan Melchor

Problem of sound propagation in the ocean is considered. A novel approach of K. Hegewisch and S. Tomsovic for statistical modelling of acoustic wavefields in the random ocean is examined. The approach is based on construction of a wavefield…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-01-25 Denis Makarov

We derive a generalized deviation equation -- analogous to the well-known geodesic deviation equation -- for test bodies in General Relativity. Our result encompasses and generalizes previous extensions of the standard geodesic deviation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-01 Dirk Puetzfeld , Yuri N. Obukhov

In this paper, we develop a computational multiscale to solve the parabolic wave approximation with heterogeneous and variable media. Parabolic wave approximation is a technique to approximate the full wave equation. One benefit of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Sai-Mang Pun , Zecheng Zhang

Parameter identification problems in partial differential equations (PDEs) consist in determining one or more functional coefficient in a PDE. In this article, the Bayesian nonparametric approach to such problems is considered. Focusing on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Matteo Giordano

Gaussian process regression (GPR) is a popular nonparametric Bayesian method that provides predictive uncertainty estimates and is widely used in safety-critical applications. While prior research has introduced various uncertainty bounds,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Junyi Liu , Stanley Kok

Classically, anisotropic surface wave tomography is treated as an optimisation problem where it proceeds through a linearised two-step approach. It involves the construction of 2D group or phase velocity maps for each considered period,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 John Keith Magali

One of the pivotal tasks in scientific machine learning is to represent underlying dynamical systems from time series data. Many methods for such dynamics learning explicitly require the derivatives of state data, which are not directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Dongwei Ye , Mengwu Guo

Geodesics deviation equation (GDE) is itroduced. In "adiabatic" approximation exact solution of the GDE if found. Perturbation theory in general case is formulated. Geometrical criterion of local instability which may lead to chaos is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Dobrowolski , Jerzy Szczesny

A concise method of deriving expressions for Gaussian-like solutions of the paraxial and d'Alembert equations is presented. This method is based on the Hankel transform. Choosing some Gaussian base functions with slight modifications of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-07 Tomasz Radożycki

This paper develops methodology for local sensitivity analysis based on directional derivatives associated with spatial processes. Formal gradient analysis for spatial processes was elaborated in previous papers, focusing on distribution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Maria A. Terres , Alan E. Gelfand

Explicit neural representations such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enable high-fidelity and real-time novel view synthesis, yet optimize for alpha-composited optical appearance rather than ray-intersectable geometry. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Niklas Vaara , Lam Huynh , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

We design statistical hypothesis tests for performing leak detection in water pipeline channels. By applying an appropriate model for signal propagation, we show that the detection problem becomes one of distinguishing signal from noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Liusha Yang , Matthew R. McKay , Xun Wang

We consider a parabolic equation driven by a nonlinear diffusive operator and we obtain a gradient estimate in the domain where the equation takes place. This estimate depends on the structural constants of the equation, on the geometry of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Serena Dipierro , Zu Gao , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper, we present a new method for computing approximate geodesic distances. We introduce the wave method for approximating geodesic distances from a point on a manifold mesh. Our method involves the solution of two linear systems…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ayushi Sinha , Michael Kazhdan

An adiabatic mode Helmholtz equation for 3D underwater sound propagation is developed. The Gaussian beam tracing in this case is constructed. The test calculations are carried out for the crosswedge benchmark and proved an excellent…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 M. Yu. Trofimov , A. D. Zakharenko , S. B. Kozitskiy