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Exact wave-optical imaging of a Kerr-de Sitter black hole using Heun's equation
Spacetime perturbations due to scalar, vector, and tensor fields on a fixed
background geometry can be described in the framework of Teukolsky's equation.
In this work, wave scattering is treated analytically, using the Green's
function method and solutions to the separated radial and angular differential
equations in combination with a partial wave technique for a scalar and
monochromatic perturbation. The results are applied to analytically describe
wave-optical imaging via Kirchhoff-Fresnel diffraction, leading to, e.g., the
formation of observable black hole shadows. A comparison to the ray-optical
description is given, providing new insights into wave-optical effects and
properties. On a Kerr-de Sitter spacetime, the cosmological constant changes
the singularity structure of the Teukolsky equation and allows for an
analytical, exact solution via a transformation into the Heun's differential
equation, which is the most general, second-order differential equation with
four regular singularities. The scattering of waves originating from a point
source involves a solution in terms of the so-called Heun's function . It
is used to find angular solutions, which form a complete set of orthonormal
functions similar to the spherical harmonics. Our approach allows to solve the
scattering problem while taking into account the complex interplay of Heun's
functions around local singularities.Comment: 27 pages, 15 figure
Analytical Solutions to General Anti-Plane Shear Problems In Finite Elasticity
This paper presents a pure complementary energy variational method for
solving anti-plane shear problem in finite elasticity. Based on the canonical
duality-triality theory developed by the author, the nonlinear/nonconex partial
differential equation for the large deformation problem is converted into an
algebraic equation in dual space, which can, in principle, be solved to obtain
a complete set of stress solutions. Therefore, a general analytical solution
form of the deformation is obtained subjected to a compatibility condition.
Applications are illustrated by examples with both convex and nonconvex stored
strain energies governed by quadratic-exponential and power-law material
models, respectively. Results show that the nonconvex variational problem could
have multiple solutions at each material point, the complementary gap function
and the triality theory can be used to identify both global and local extremal
solutions, while the popular (poly-, quasi-, and rank-one) convexities provide
only local minimal criteria, the Legendre-Hadamard condition does not guarantee
uniqueness of solutions. This paper demonstrates again that the pure
complementary energy principle and the triality theory play important roles in
finite deformation theory and nonconvex analysis.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 201
Wave mechanics in media pinned at Bravais lattice points
The propagation of waves through microstructured media with periodically
arranged inclusions has applications in many areas of physics and engineering,
stretching from photonic crystals through to seismic metamaterials. In the
high-frequency regime, modelling such behaviour is complicated by multiple
scattering of the resulting short waves between the inclusions. Our aim is to
develop an asymptotic theory for modelling systems with arbitrarily-shaped
inclusions located on general Bravais lattices. We then consider the limit of
point-like inclusions, the advantage being that exact solutions can be obtained
using Fourier methods, and go on to derive effective medium equations using
asymptotic analysis. This approach allows us to explore the underlying reasons
for dynamic anisotropy, localisation of waves, and other properties typical of
such systems, and in particular their dependence upon geometry. Solutions of
the effective medium equations are compared with the exact solutions, shedding
further light on the underlying physics. We focus on examples that exhibit
dynamic anisotropy as these demonstrate the capability of the asymptotic theory
to pick up detailed qualitative and quantitative features
Stochastic fiber dynamics in a spatially semi-discrete setting
We investigate a spatially discrete surrogate model for the dynamics of a
slender, elastic, inextensible fiber in turbulent flows. Deduced from a
continuous space-time beam model for which no solution theory is available, it
consists of a high-dimensional second order stochastic differential equation in
time with a nonlinear algebraic constraint and an associated Lagrange
multiplier term. We establish a suitable framework for the rigorous formulation
and analysis of the semi-discrete model and prove existence and uniqueness of a
global strong solution. The proof is based on an explicit representation of the
Lagrange multiplier and on the observation that the obtained explicit drift
term in the equation satisfies a one-sided linear growth condition on the
constraint manifold. The theoretical analysis is complemented by numerical
studies concerning the time discretization of our model. The performance of
implicit Euler-type methods can be improved when using the explicit
representation of the Lagrange multiplier to compute refined initial estimates
for the Newton method applied in each time step.Comment: 20 pages; typos removed, references adde
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