The Foldy-Lax approximation is valid for nearly resonating frequencies

DOI10.1007/S00033-022-01896-5zbMATH Open1505.35088arXiv2206.10899OpenAlexW4311838196MaRDI QIDQ2106326FDOQ2106326

Authors: Abdulaziz Alsenafi, Ahcene Ghandriche, Mourad Sini 

Publication date: 14 December 2022

Published in: ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The waves (including acoustic, electromagnetic and elastic ones) propagating in the presence of a cluster of inhomogeneities undergo multiple interactions between them. When these inhomogeneities have sub-wavelength sizes, the dominating field due to the these multiple interactions is the Foldy-Lax field. This field models the interaction between the equivalent point-like scatterers, located at the centers of the small inhomogeneities, with scattering coefficients related to geometrical/material properties of each inhomogeneities, as polarization coefficients. One of the related questions left open for a long time is whether we can reconstruct this Foldy-Lax field from the scattered field measured far away from the cluster of the small inhomogeneities. This is the Foldy-Lax approximation (or Foldy-Lax paradigm). In this work, we show that this approximation is indeed valid as soon as the inhomogeneities enjoy critical scales between their sizes and contrasts. These critical scales allow them to generate resonances which can be characterized and computed. The main result here is that exciting the cluster by incident frequencies which are close to the real parts of these resonances allow us to reconstruct the Fold-Lax field from the scattered waves collected far away from the cluster itself (as the farfields). In short, we show that the Foldy-Lax approximation is valid using nearly resonating incident frequencies. This results is demonstrated by using, as small inhomogeneities, dielectric nanoparticles for the 2D TM model of electromagnetic waves and bubbles for the 3D acoustic waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10899

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zbMATH Keywords

resonancesFoldy-Lax approximationmultiple scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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