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A plane acoustic wave is scattered by either a soft or a hard small torus. The incident wave has a wavelength which is much larger than the characteristic dimension of the scatterer and thus the low-frequency approximation method is applicable to the scattering problem. It is shown that there exists exactly one toroidal coordinate system that fits the given geometry. The R-separation of variables is utilized to obtain the series expansion of the fields in terms of toroidal harmonics (half-integer Legendre functions of first and second kind). The scattering problem for the soft torus is solved analytically for the near field, governing the leading two low-frequency coefficients, as well as for the far field, where both the amplitude and the cross-section are evaluated. The scattering problem for the hard torus appears to be much more complicated in calculations. The Neumann boundary condition on the surface of the torus leads to a three-term recurrence relation for the series coefficients corresponding to the scattered fields. Thus, the potential boundary-value problem for the leading low-frequency approximations is reduced to infinite systems of linear algebraic equations with three-diagonal matrices. An analytical technique for solving systems of diagonal form is developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by inhomogeneous medium. We study the problem to recover the near and the far field using a priori information about the refractive index and the support of inhomogeneity. The incident spherical wave is modified in such a way as to recover the plane wave incidence when the source point approaches infinity. Applying the low-frequency expansions, the scattering medium problem is reduced to a sequence of potential problems for the approximation coefficients in the presence of a monopole singularity located at the source of incidence. Complete expansions for the integral representation formula in the near field as well as for the scattering amplitude in the far field are provided. The method is applied to the case of a spherical region of inhomogeneity and a radial dependent refractive index. As the point singularity tends to infinity, the relative results recover the scattering medium problem for plane wave incidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]