平面上方分层小球的光散射计算

本文基于扩展的Mie理论方法求解平面上方分层小球的散射问题。通过建立小球和平面的模型,解决小球和平面的边界条件问题,并利用矢量波函数展开的方法求得了散射场。强调了小球与表面的相互作用。利用Mie理论方法得到了分层小球的散射场系数,通过计算平面上小球的散射模型,得到了平面上分层小球的散射场分布。结论给出了分层介质小球的微分散射截面图。     

Analysis of general multipolar images on dielectric layers for the calculation of DEP force

An axisymmetric field problem of a sphere and a multi-layered planer dielectric body is investigated based on the multipolar expansion method. First, the multipolar potential, produced by the sphere and expressed in the spherical coordinate system, is re-written in the cylindrical coordinate system as an integral of Bessel function. Then the field problem is solved with the boundary conditions at the planer interface of the dielectrics, and the obtained potential is written back to spherical harmonics, which can be regarded as “image multipoles” inside the dielectric body. The “images” influences back the “multipoles” on the sphere, and the field can be determined by solving these relations in self-consistent manner. DEP force exerted on the particle is calculated as the multipolar interaction, as well as the capacitance for the case involving a conducting sphere and a conducting plane.     

Construction of the mass velocity profile for a rarefied molecular gas entrained by a rotating sphere taking into account thermophysical parameters of the gas

The problem of a sphere rotating in a molecular gas is solved in the isothermal approximation. The expression for the velocity of a rarefied molecular gas entrained by a sphere rotating in it is derived for sliding flow conditions taking into account the second-order correction in the Knudsen number. A generalization of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in the BGK model to the case of rotational degrees of freedom of gas molecules is used as the basic equation. The diffusive reflection model is employed as the microscopic boundary condition on the surface of the sphere. It is shown that this approach makes it possible to take into account the dependence of the gas velocity on the Prandtl number and gas temperature.     

Seismic scattering from a spherical inclusion eccentrically located within a homogeneous, spherical host: theoretical derivation

The scattered fields from a spherical body eccentrically located within an otherwise homogeneous host sphere are derived by satisfying the boundary conditions at both interfaces simultaneously. The source, which may be composed of any linear combination of S and P waves, is also located arbitrarily within the host sphere. The scattering system may have applications in seismic scattering, by cavities or dense bodies located near the Earth surface or to the Slichter mode.     

Scaled particle theory: Solution to the complete set of scaled particle theory conditions: Applications to surface structure and dilute mixtures

We present, so far as we know, the first solution to thecomplete set of conditions developed by scaled particle theory under the usual approximation that G(λ) can be expressed as a Laurent series for 1/2 <λ < ∞. The theory leads to a fourth virial coefficient accurate to 0.6% and fair values for the first derivative of the radial distribution function?(1). The results are used to calculate both boundary tension and boundary adsorption in the hard sphere fluid, as well as the pressure of a dilute hard sphere mixture. It is probable that the nearly linear function we calculate deviates only slightly from the true G(λ) at fluid densities. Some discussion of this point is presented.     

Two Approaches to Solving the Problem of Diffraction on a Janus Sphere

Acoustical Physics - Based on the method of continued boundary conditions, two algorithms for the numerical solution of the problem of plane wave diffraction by a Janus sphere in the form of a...     

Seismic scattering from a spherical inclusion eccentrically located within a homogeneous,spherical host: theoretical derivation

Abstract

The scattered fields from a spherical body eccentrically located within an otherwise homogeneous host sphere are derived by satisfying the boundary conditions at both interfaces simultaneously. The source, which may be composed of any linear combination of S and P waves, is also located arbitrarily within the host sphere. The scattering system may have applications in seismic scattering, by cavities or dense bodies located near the Earth surface or to the Slichter mode.     

离心球对高斯波束的光散射及应用

基于广义米氏理论研究了在轴离心球对高斯波束光散射特性.入射高斯波束的波束因子用积分区域近似法计算,散射场的展开系数由矢量球面波函数的加法定理并求解边界条件得到.以离心球为模型研究了单核生物细胞对高斯波束的散射特性并给出了相关数值模拟,讨论了离心距、波束的束腰半径和核的大小对散射强度角分布和散射、消光系数的影响.     

Fluctuation theorems for dielectrics with periodic boundary conditions

We derive fluctuation theorems for dielectrics with periodic boundary conditions defined by a Bravais lattice in which the configuration of a large number of permanent dipoles in the unit cell is repeated periodically. We use the electrostatic approximation and show that it is essential to consider bounded geometry. We consider in particular geometries adapted to the Ewald summation used in computer calculations, namely ellipsoids, with as special cases a slab and a sphere. The fluctuations depend strongly on the chosen geometry.     

Spectral solvers for spherical elliptic problems

A new family of direct spectral solvers for the 3D Helmholtz equation in a spherical gap and inside a sphere for nonaxisymmetric problems is presented. A variational formulation (no collocation) is adopted, based on the Fourier expansion and the associated Legendre functions to represent the angular dependence over the sphere and using basis functions generated by Legendre or Jacobi polynomials to represent the radial structure of the solution. In the present method, boundary conditions on the polar axis and at the sphere center are not required and never mentioned, by construction. The spectral solution of the vector Dirichlet problem is also considered, by employing a transformation that uncouples the spherical components of the Fourier modes and that is implemented here for the first time. The condition numbers of the matrices involved in the scalar solvers are computed and the spectral convergence of all the proposed solution algorithms is verified by numerical tests.     

Charged dust spheres in the general theory of relativity

Tolman's problem for charged dust is solved in quadratures. The external solution (Reisner-Nordstrom) is obtained in the natural reference frames of charged test particles. The conditions for matching a charged dust sphere with a vacuum over a fixed Lagrangian sphere are formulated. They are equivalent to boundary conditions on the initial data.Translated from Izvestiya Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 107–113, April, 1976.The author is deeply grateful to his colleagues K. A. Bronnikov and M. A. Koval'chuk for discussion of this article and a number of valuable remarks.     

Radiation transport and internal reflection in a sphere

We construct an integral equation for the flux intensity in a scattering and absorbing medium using the integro-differential form of the radiative transfer equation in a sphere. The sphere is uniformly irradiated by an external source of arbitrary angular distribution. The Fresnel boundary conditions, which incorporate reflection and refraction, are used. For the special cases of a non-scattering medium, and in the limit of an optically transparent medium, we obtain exact solutions for specular and diffuse refection. Some numerical examples are given which give qualitative agreement with some recent work of Tian and Chiu (JQSRT, 2005).     

Steady state self-diffusion at low density

We prove that the motion of a test particle in a hard sphere fluid in thermal equilibrium converges, in the Boltzmann-Grad limit, to the stochastic process governed by the linear Boltzmann equation. The convergence is in the sense of weak convergence of the path measures. We use this result to study the steady state of a binary mixture of hard spheres of different colors (but equal masses and diameters) induced by color-changing boundary conditions. In the Boltzmann-Grad limit the steady state is determined by the stationary solution of the linear Boltzmann equation under appropriate boundary conditions.Supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY 78-15920-02.Supported by a Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.     

Entanglement entropy for a Dirac fermion in three dimensions: Vertex contribution

In three dimensions there is a logarithmically divergent contribution to the entanglement entropy which is due to the vertices located at the boundary of the region considered. In this work we find the corresponding universal coefficient for a free Dirac field, and extend a previous work in which the scalar case was treated. The problem is equivalent to find the conformal anomaly in three-dimensional space where multiplicative boundary conditions for the field are imposed on a plane angular sector. As an intermediate step of the calculation we compute the trace of the Green function of a massive Dirac field in a two-dimensional sphere with boundary conditions imposed on a segment of a great circle.     

Electric field tunable photonic Hall effect with liquid crystals

The Mie theory for electromagnetic scattering is extended to the case of coated metal sphere with liquid crystals. A new set of vector basis functions for the electric displacement vector inside the liquid crystal layer has been constructed. The expansion coefficients of transmitted and scattered fields are obtained analytically by applying the continuous boundary conditions. The dependence of the scattering property on the geometrical parameters has been investigated in detail. The appearance of photonic Hall effect for such a Mie scatterer is confirmed. It is interesting that such a photonic Hall effect not only depends on the ratio of the inner to outer radius of coated sphere, it is also tunable by the application of an external voltage.     

Radiating stars with generalised Vaidya atmospheres

We model the gravitational behaviour of a radiating star when the exterior geometry is the generalised Vaidya spacetime. The interior matter distribution is shear-free and undergoing radial heat flow. The exterior energy momentum tensor is a superposition of a null fluid and a string fluid. An analysis of the junction conditions at the stellar surface shows that the pressure at the boundary depends on the interior heat flux and the exterior string density. The results for a relativistic radiating star undergoing nonadiabatic collapse are obtained as a special case. For a particular model we demonstrate that the radiating fluid sphere collapses without the appearance of the horizon at the boundary.     

Radiation transport and internal reflection in a two region, turbid sphere

We construct an integral equation for the flux intensity in a scattering and absorbing two-region turbid spherical medium using the integro-differential form of the radiative transfer equation. The sphere is uniformly irradiated by an external source of arbitrary angular distribution and contains a distributed volume source. Anisotropic scattering is accounted for by the transport approximation. The Fresnel boundary conditions, which incorporate reflection and refraction, are used at the outer surface and at the interface between the two regions. In this respect, some new interfacial boundary conditions are introduced. For the special case of a non-scattering medium, we obtain exact solutions for specular reflection. Some numerical examples are given which show qualitative agreement with some recent work of other authors. Of particular interest are the emergent angular distribution and the albedo of the surface as a function of the refractive index and the radii of the two regions. We also draw attention to the fact that the boundary conditions at the interface differ according to the relative values of the refractive indices in the two regions. The interfacial boundary conditions for use in diffusion theory are derived and compared with those of Aronson [Boundary conditions for diffusion of light. J opt Soc Am 1995;12:2532]. In appendix B, we show how diffusion theory may be used to include scattering into the problem in a simple way.     

Acoustic scattering by a sphere with a hemispherically split boundary condition

A general analytical model is developed for the scattering of sound by a sphere with a nonuniform impedance boundary condition that is divided into two uniformly distributed hemispheres. In addition to the overall solution for the time harmonic pressure, the analytical result gives insight into the modal contributions and coupling for different cases of source incidence and boundary impedance. Modal cross coupling is shown to exist between incoming and scattered wave modes of equi-order and nonequal degree when the degrees are opposite in parity (odd-even or even-odd coupling). This cross coupling is strongest between modes of adjacent degree, and decreases as the degrees become dissimilar. The overall magnitude of the cross coupling is dependent on the extent of the impedance mismatch between the two surface hemispheres. Simulation and discussion are given for several specific cases of source incidence and impedance (each hemisphere is given a different constant impedance value). These results are consistent with expectations from the scattering of sound by a sphere with a uniformly distributed surface boundary. The broad scattering characteristics of the hemispherically divided sphere are shown to be analogous to connecting the appropriate sectors from the corresponding uniformly distributed spheres.     

Exact boundary condition for time-dependent wave equation based on boundary integral

An exact non-reflecting boundary conditions based on a boundary integral equation or a modified Kirchhoff-type formula is derived for exterior three-dimensional wave equations. The Kirchhoff-type non-reflecting boundary condition is originally proposed by L. Ting and M.J. Miksis [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 80 (1986) 1825] and numerically tested by D. Givoli and D. Cohen [J. Comput. Phys. 117 (1995) 102] for a spherically symmetric problem. The computational advantage of Ting–Miksis boundary condition is that its temporal non-locality is limited to a fixed amount of past information. However, a long-time instability is exhibited in testing numerical solutions by using a standard non-dissipative finite-difference scheme. The main purpose of this work is to present a new exact boundary condition and to eliminate the long-time instability. The proposed exact boundary condition can be considered as a limit case of Ting–Miksis boundary condition when the two artificial boundaries used in their method approach each other. Our boundary condition is actually a boundary integral equation on a single artificial boundary for wave equations, which is to be solved in conjunction with the interior wave equation. The new boundary condition needs only one artificial boundary, which can be of any shape, i.e., sphere, cubic surface, etc. It keeps all merits of the original Kirchhoff boundary condition such as restricting the temporal non-locality, free of numerical evaluation of any special functions and so on. Numerical approximation to the artificial boundary condition on cubic surface is derived and three-dimensional numerical tests are carried out on the cubic computational domain.