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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

We derive and interpret solutions of time-harmonic Maxwell's equations with a vertical and a horizontal electric dipole near a planar, thin conducting film, e.g. graphene sheet, lying between two unbounded isotropic and non-magnetic media.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Dionisios Margetis , Mitchell Luskin

The perfectly matched layer (PML) formulation is a prominent way of handling radiation problems in unbounded domain and has gained interest due to its simple implementation in finite element codes. However, its simplicity can be advanced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Jon Vegard Venås , Trond Kvamsdal

This article is concerned with the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a generic inhomogeneous medium. It is shown that if there is a right corner on the support of the medium, then it scatters every pair of incident EM…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Hongyu Liu , Jingni Xiao

In this paper, we consider the problem of the scattering of in-plane waves at an interface between a homogeneous medium and a metamaterial. The relevant eigenmodes in the two regions are calculated by solving a recently described non…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Amir Ashkan Mokhtari , Yan Lu , Qiyuan Zhou , Alireza V. Amirkhizi , Ankit Srivastava

A new method to find the propagation equation system governing the scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a nonlinear medium is proposed. The aim is to let the effects appear spontaneously, deleting as far as possible the phenomenological…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-08 Pierre Godard , Frederic Zolla , Andre Nicolet

We analyse wave propagation in two-dimensional bianisotropic media with the Finite Element Method (FEM). We start from the Maxwell-Tellegen's equations in bianisotropic media, and derive some system of coupled Partial Difference Equations…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yan Liu , Boris Gralak , Sebastien Guenneau

We present a multiscale finite element method for a diffusion problem with rough and high contrast coefficients. The construction of the multiscale finite element space is based on the localized orthogonal decomposition methodology and it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Susanne C. Brenner , José C. Garay , Li-yeng Sung

In this paper, we propose a discrete perfectly matched layer (PML) for the peridynamic scalar wave-type problems in viscous media. Constructing PMLs for nonlocal models is often challenging, mainly due to the fact that nonlocal operators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Yu Du , Yonglin Li , Jiwei Zhang

The time-dependent Maxwell system describing electromagnetic wave propagation in inhomogeneous isotropic media in the one-dimensional case reduces to a Vekua-type equation for bicomplex-valued functions of a hyperbolic variable (see…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Kira V. Khmelnytskaya , Vladislav V. Kravchenko , Sergii M. Torba

We investigate the scattering of scalar plane waves in two dimensions by a heterogeneous layer that is periodic in the direction parallel to its boundary. On describing the layer as a union of periodic laminae, we develop a solution of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Prasanna Salasiya , Shixu Meng , Bojan B. Guzina

The acoustic scattering problem is modeled by the exterior Helmholtz equation, which is challenging to solve due to both the unboundedness of the domain and the high dispersion error, known as the pollution effect. We develop high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Bin Han , Jiwoon Sim

We prove stability and exponential convergence of the Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) method for acoustic scattering on manifolds with axial analytic quasicylindrical ends. These manifolds model long-range geometric perturbations (e.g.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Victor Kalvin

The scattering of scalar waves by a set of scatterers is considered. It is proven that the scattered field can be represented as an integral supported by any smooth surface enclosing the scatterers. This is a generalization of the series…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Didier Felbacq , Anthony Gourdin , Emmanuel Rousseau

This article proves the well posedness of the boundary value problemthat arises when PML algorithms are applied to Pauli's equationswith a three dimensional rectangle as computational domain. The absorptionsare positive near the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Laurence Halpern , Jeffrey Rauch

The standard Maxwell formulation of the problem of polarized dielectrics suffers from a number of difficulties, both conceptual and practical. These difficulties are particularly significant in the case of liquid interfaces, where the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Dmitry V. Matyushov

The conventional Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) is unstable for certain kinds of anisotropic media. This instability is intrinsic and independent of PML formulation or implementation. The Multi-axial PML (MPML) removes such instability using…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-12-22 Kai Gao , Lianjie Huang

In the last decade, the perfectly matched layer (PML) approach has proved a flexible and accurate method for the simulation of waves in unbounded media. Most PML formulations, however, usually require wave equations stated in their standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Marcus J. Grote , Imbo Sim

Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) has become a very common method for the numerical approximation of wave and wave-like equations on unbounded domains. This technique allows one to obtain accurate solutions while working on a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Kurt Bryan , Michael S. Vogelius

The optical resonance problem is similar to but different from time-steady Schr\"{o}dinger equation. One big challenge is that the eigenfunctions in resonance problem is exponentially growing. We give physical explanation to this boundary…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-11 Tianpeng Jiang , Yang Xiang