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Wave scattering at a rectangular junction of four waveguides

Mathematical Physics 2024-11-28 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We consider the scattering of linear waves in two dimensions by a rectangular region at the junction of four waveguides. A solution to the frequency domain problem is obtained by exploiting reflective symmetry to reduce the full problem to sub-problems defined on one quadrant of the junction. These sub-problems are solved using the eigenfunction matching method. The solution to the problem on the full region is then recovered from the solutions to the sub-problems, and a scattering matrix for the junction is presented. Finally, the solution in the time domain is constructed as a superposition of the frequency domain solutions and visualised for a range of incident pulses and waveguide geometries.

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@article{arxiv.2411.17954,
  title  = {Wave scattering at a rectangular junction of four waveguides},
  author = {Afnan A. Aldosri and Michael H. Meylan and Ben Wilks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17954},
  year   = {2024}
}
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