Low frequency acoustic and electromagnetic scattering

This paper deals with two classes of problems arising from acoustics and electromagnetics scattering in the low frequency stations. The first class of problem is solving Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on an arbitrary two dimensional body while the second one is an interior-exterior interface problem with Helmholtz equation in the exterior. Low frequency analysis show that there are two intermediate problems which solve the above problems accurate to 0(k(2) log k) where k is the frequency. These solutions greatly differ from the zero frequency approximations. For the Dirichlet problem numerical examples are shown to verify the theoretical estimates

A population model with nonlinear diffusion

AbstractA model is presented for a single species population moving in a limited one-dimensional environment. The birth-death process is specialized by assuming a constant death modulus and a birth modulus which is an exponential in the age. The diffusion mechanism is nonlinear and results in a problem for the space population density which has a degenerate parabolic form and is similarly to the porous media equation. It is shown that the effect of the nonlinearity in the diffusion is to produce an approach to steady state even when the process is birth dominant. The interaction of the birth-death and diffusion processes is studied and is shown to yield a modified birth-death mechanism which is both time and space dependent

On the accurate long-time solution of the wave equation in exterior domains: Asymptotic expansions and corrected boundary conditions

We consider the solution of scattering problems for the wave equation using approximate boundary conditions at artificial boundaries. These conditions are explicitly viewed as approximations to an exact boundary condition satisfied by the solution on the unbounded domain. We study the short and long term behavior of the error. It is provided that, in two space dimensions, no local in time, constant coefficient boundary operator can lead to accurate results uniformly in time for the class of problems we consider. A variable coefficient operator is developed which attains better accuracy (uniformly in time) than is possible with constant coefficient approximations. The theory is illustrated by numerical examples. We also analyze the proposed boundary conditions using energy methods, leading to asymptotically correct error bounds

Solution procedures for three-dimensional eddy current problems

AbstractThe problem under consideration is that of the scattering of time periodic electromagnetic fields by metallic obstacles. A common approximation here is that in which the metal is assumed to have infinite conductivity. The resulting problem, called the perfect conductor problem, involves solving Maxwell's equations in the region exterior to the obstacle with the tangential component of the electric field zero on the obstacle surface. In the interface problem different sets of Maxwell equations must be solved in the obstacle and outside while the tangential components of both electric and magnetic fields are continuous across the obstacle surface. Solution procedures for this problem are given. There is an exact integral equation procedure for the interface problem and an asymptotic procedure for large conductivity. Both are based on a new integral equation procedure for the perfect conductor problem. The asymptotic procedure gives an approximate solution by solving a sequence of problems analogous to the one for perfect conductors

On mixed boundary-value problems for axially-symmetric potentials,

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On the scattering of waves by a disk

Es wird gezeigt, dass das Problem, die Beugung einer ebenen Welle an einer kreisförmigen Öffnung oder Scheibe zu bestimmen, auf die Lösung von regulären Fredholmschen Integralgleichungen zweiter Art zurückgeführt werden kann. Die Lösungen dieser Integralgleichungen liefern uns für die Scheibe im Falle der Neumannschen Bedingung die radiale Variation der Unstetigkeiten der Wellenfunktion und im Dirichletschen Falle die Unstetigkeiten ihrer normalen Ableitung. Ist das Produkt von Öffnungsradius und Wellenzahl klein, so können die Integralgleichungen gelöst werden. Für die Ableitung der Integralgleichungen verwenden wir einerseits die Poissonsche Darstellung für die Wellenfunktion und andererseits die Fortsetzung der Helmholtzschen Darstellung in die komplexe Ebene.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43290/1/33_2005_Article_BF01602674.pd