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Breaking Scale Separation in Metamaterials' homogenization: Interface-Inertia-Enhanced Relaxed Micromorphic Model

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Pith's one-line read The paper establishes that the inertial contribution of the boundary itself — modeled as a kinetic surface energy in the relaxed micromorphic variational principle — is what lets a homogenized continuum reproduce truncation-dependent scatte

desk verdict A clean variational extension of the relaxed micromorphic model with boundary inertia, but the scalar calibration and the γ-cut validation are weaker than the framing claims. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.27385 v1 pith:SUCIOYAL submitted 2026-07-29 math.NA cs.NA

Angela Madeo , Leonardo Perez , Mohammad Sarhil This is my paper · ORCID
classification math.NAcs.NA MSC 74Q0574J2074E30
keywords interfaceinertiarelaxedmicromorphicmodelhomogenizationmechanicalmetamaterialsboundaryeffectsscaleseparationsurfacekineticenergyfinite-size
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The reading

This paper argues that when a periodic metamaterial is truncated at different planes, the boundary layer itself carries different inertia, and this interface inertia — not just bulk elasticity — is what makes finite specimens behave differently at high frequencies. To capture this, the authors add a kinetic surface energy to the relaxed micromorphic model, producing a boundary condition in which the interface carries an effective mass; the bulk model is unchanged. A single surface density calibrated on one 5×5 β-cut specimen at one frequency reproduces the fully-resolved β-cut scattering response across frequencies from 6.28 to 12.56 Mrad/s and for specimens up to 20×20 unit cells, while the standard zero-density model tracks the α-cut. The payoff is that homogenized models can remain usable in frequency regimes where the classical separation-of-scales assumption fails, as long as the cut geometry is accounted for by a surface inertia parameter.

What carries the argument

The kinetic surface energy K∂Ω(˙u) = −½ρ∂Ω⟨˙u,˙u⟩, where ρ∂Ω is a scalar surface density assigned to the truncation plane, is the central new object. Placing it in the variational principle turns a pure bulk continuum into one whose boundary carries inertia: the first variation produces the non-coherent inertial boundary condition t = f + ρ∂Ω ü, with the sign chosen so the interface force acts like an applied traction. The relaxed micromorphic model — a continuum with macroscopic displacement u and micro-distortion P, with bulk kinetic and strain energies — supplies the bulk response; the surface term is the only new ingredient, and it preserves the variational structure of the bulk model.

What would settle it

Take the calibrated value ρ∂Ω = 0.715 kg/m² and apply it to a specimen or excitation outside the fitted range — e.g., a 3×3 or 40×40 β-cut block, shear-wave incidence, or oblique angles — in fully-resolved simulation; if the enhanced model no longer tracks the β-cut scattering while ρ∂Ω = 0 tracks the α-cut, the scalar-interface-inertia hypothesis is falsified. A more direct check is to compute the mass per area of the boundary layer of partial cells exposed by each truncation plane and see whether it matches the calibrated ρ∂Ω values; if the fitted densities contradict the geometric boundary

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Core claim

The central claim is that different truncations of the same periodic lattice behave like boundaries with different effective mass, and a kinetic surface energy K∂Ω = −½ρ∂Ω⟨u̇,u̇⟩ added to the relaxed micromorphic action captures this. Variation of the augmented action yields the modified boundary condition t = f + ρ∂Ω ü, in which interface inertia appears on the same footing as external tractions. Calibrating ρ∂Ω = 0.715 kg/m² for the β-cut from a single 5L×5L scattering simulation at 12.56 Mrad/s reproduces the β-cut scattering response over frequencies from 6.28 to 12.56 Mrad/s and for 5L×5L, 10L×10L, and 20L×20L specimens, while ρ∂Ω = 0 keeps the model on the α-cut. The paper is explicit

Load-bearing premise

The argument rests on the premise that a single number — the extra inertia of the cut boundary — captures all the dynamic difference between truncations, independent of frequency and specimen size, with the α-cut taken as the zero reference.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Different truncations of the same metamaterial become distinguishable at the continuum level without resolving the microstructure.
  • One calibrated surface density carries over to other frequencies and specimen sizes, so interface inertia behaves like a property of the cut rather than a curve fit.
  • The variational formulation is preserved, so the surface term can be used alongside other boundary conditions and in time-domain simulations.
  • The γ-cut validation with a different fitted density (0.3575 kg/m²) shows the framework generalizes to other truncation planes.
  • Finite metamaterial building blocks can be assembled in multiscale models using homogenized descriptions at scales where fully resolved simulations are too expensive.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The near factor-of-two ratio between the calibrated β- and γ-cut densities hints that ρ∂Ω may equal a fully computable geometric quantity — the mass of the partial unit cells left by the truncation plane — which would turn calibration into prediction.
  • If the scalar density is truly a boundary-layer mass, then the same parameter should also control other boundary-driven effects, such as reflection coefficients or mode conversion at the cut face; this can be tested in direct scattering simulations.
  • The authors' own list of residual discrepancies in the intermediate regime suggests a tensorial or elastic surface term will be needed; a natural test is oblique incidence or shear-wave excitation, where normal and tangential interface inertia should separate.
  • A physical experiment with two finite blocks cut differently from the same lattice should show the scattering difference predicted here; demonstrating it outside numerics would settle that the effect is inertial rather than an artifact of parameter fitting.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes to augment the relaxed micromorphic model for finite-size metamaterials with a kinetic surface energy K∂Ω = −1/2 ρ∂Ω ⟨u̇,u̇⟩ (Eq. 6), which variationally yields the inertial boundary condition t = f + ρ∂Ω ü (Eq. 12). The interface density is calibrated for the β-cut against one fully resolved 5L×5L scattering simulation at 12.56 Mrad/s (§3.3.2), giving ρ∂Ω = 0.715 kg/m². The authors then report that this single scalar reproduces the β-cut response across 1.26–12.57 Mrad/s and for 5L×5L, 10L×10L, and 20L×20L specimens, while ρ∂Ω = 0 matches the α-cut. A second cut (γ) is calibrated separately and presented as validation. The claimed significance is that the homogenized model can capture truncation-dependent interface inertia in regimes where scale separation breaks down.

Significance. If the transfer claim held, this would be a meaningful extension of the relaxed micromorphic framework: a single fitted boundary parameter, with a clean variational derivation, would allow continuum simulations of finite metamaterial blocks at frequencies where standard homogenization fails. The derivation in §3.2 is compact and correct, and the high-frequency tables show substantial error reductions (e.g., Table 2: β-cut average error drops from 26.16% to 14.86% when ρ∂Ω = 0.715 is used). However, as presented the evidence is largely calibration-based: the γ-cut is a second fit rather than an unfitted prediction, and the low-frequency entries in the L2 tables contradict the claim of systematic improvement. The conceptual advance is therefore plausible but not yet established quantitatively.

major comments (4)
  1. [§4.1, Tables 2–4] The text states that the calibrated ρ∂Ω 'systematically improves' and 'always moves' the β-cut response closer to the fully resolved solution. Tables 2–4 contradict this at several low frequencies. For example, Table 2 (β reference) shows the L2 error increasing from 3.96% to 5.53% at 1.26 Mrad/s and from 12.14% to 18.72% at 2.51 Mrad/s when ρ∂Ω is changed from 0 to 0.715. Table 3 also worsens at 1.26 and 2.51 Mrad/s, and Table 4 worsens at 1.26 Mrad/s. Thus the scalar value is at best an average compromise over frequency, not a demonstrated frequency-independent constant. The claim must be restricted to the high-frequency regime, or a mechanism for the low-frequency degradation must be provided, before the central transfer claim can be accepted.
  2. [§4.2] The γ-cut is presented as an 'additional and independent validation case', but its surface density is obtained by 'the same calibration strategy adopted for the other interfaces' (§4.2). This is a second fit, not an unfitted prediction. The improvement in Table 5 (e.g., average error 19.51%→11.79% for the 5.75L specimen) only demonstrates that the parametrization can absorb another cut's response after calibration. An independent test would require predicting ρ∂Ω|γ from the boundary-layer mass distribution of the γ-truncated lattice, or calibrating ρ∂Ω|γ on one frequency/size and testing it on all other frequencies and sizes for the γ-cut without re-fitting.
  3. [§3.3.2 and Table 2] The α-cut is assigned ρ∂Ω = 0 as the reference because the standard model 'already reproduces the response of the α-truncated specimen'. Yet Table 2 shows that for the α reference the standard model has 17–28% relative L2 errors in the high-frequency range (average 21.54%), and the figures in the Appendix show visible discrepancies. The fitted ρ∂Ω for the β-cut may therefore be compensating bulk-model misfit rather than isolating interface inertia. The paper should report the bulk-model error as baseline uncertainty and show that the calibrated ρ∂Ω is insensitive to it—for example by re-calibrating against a corrected bulk model or by directly estimating the boundary-layer mass from the truncated microstructure.
  4. [§3.3.2] The calibration of ρ∂Ω = 0.715 kg/m² is determined 'by direct inspection' of Fig. 10 at a single frequency and specimen size, with no objective function, no uncertainty estimate, and no mesh-convergence data for the fully resolved simulations. Since the central claim is that this single scalar is a frequency- and size-independent physical property, the calibration needs to be quantitative and accompanied by sensitivity and convergence analysis. In addition, the surface energy in Eq. (6) is negative by construction; the paper should state explicitly whether this is an effective correction or a physical inertia, because the physical interpretation as 'interface inertia' rests on that distinction.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Figures 12–20] Several captions list ρ∂Ω = −0.715 or −0.3575 while the text calibrates positive values. The sign convention should be made consistent, or the captions corrected.
  2. [§4.2, Figures 18–20] The captions refer to 'δ-cut' and 'δ-type boundaries' while the text and tables refer to the γ-cut. Please unify the nomenclature.
  3. [§4.1, Figure 11] The caption says 'five types of implementation' but lists four columns; check and correct.
  4. [Table 1] The header repeats µ*m; the micro-inertia tensors Jm and Te in Eq. (5) appear identical. If this is intentional, state it; otherwise correct the typographical duplication.
  5. [§2.1 and Appendix] The scale-separation breakdown threshold λ = 10.33L is inferred visually from only two specimen sizes. The paper should state the limited precision of this threshold and avoid using it as a sharp delimiter without further analysis.
  6. [General] No mesh-convergence or discretization details are provided for the fully resolved microstructured simulations. Please add or cite such details so the reader can assess whether the reported discrepancies are converged numerical results.

Circularity Check

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Core β-cut extrapolation is a genuinely held-out test, but the γ-cut 'validation' is a second calibration and the α-reference is a gauge choice, giving partial circularity.

  1. fitted input called prediction [§4.2, 'Correlation Between Truncation Plane and Surface Density: Validation of the Interface Inertia Concept on the γ-Cut']
    "We now consider the γ-cut as an additional and independent validation case for the proposed interface-inertia concept. ... Using the same calibration strategy adopted for the other interfaces, the effective surface density associated with the γ-cut is found to be ρ∂Ω|γ = 0.3575 kg/m2. The validation results in Figs 18-20 show that this value allows the enhanced relaxed micromorphic model to reproduce the main features of the fully resolved γ-cut response for a large frequency range and for different specimen's sizes."

    The γ-cut value is not predicted; it is obtained by the same calibration strategy as the β-cut, i.e. by fitting to the fully resolved γ simulations. Therefore the agreement of the γ model with the γ microstructured field at the calibration configuration is built in by parameter choice, not evidence. The paper calls this an 'independent validation', but only the later frequency/size sweeps with the fixed fitted value are genuinely held out; the identification of a cut-specific ρ is a fitted input relabeled as validation.

  2. self definitional [§3.3.2, 'Calibration of the Interface Surface Density' (see also Table 2)]
    "The surface density ρ∂Ω should be interpreted as a relative interface correction with respect to the reference homogenized boundary response. In the present calibration, the α-cut plays the role of this reference configuration. The relaxed micromorphic model with ρ∂Ω = 0 naturally matches the α-cut response."

    ρ∂Ω is defined as a correction relative to an assigned reference: ρ∂Ω|α=0 is fixed by convention, and ρ∂Ω|β is tuned to the β-cut at 12.56 Mrad/s. The assertion that the standard model 'naturally matches' α is not an independent measurement—Table 2 reports 17–28% L2 error for the α reference at high frequencies. Consequently the fitted β value can absorb bulk-model misfit rather than isolate interface inertia; the 'reference' and the 'inertial correction' are co-defined in the calibration rather than separately established. This does not invalidate the frequency/size extrapolation, but it makes the relative gauge part of the input.

full rationale

The variational derivation of the boundary condition t = f + ρ∂Ω ü from the surface kinetic energy is mathematically self-contained and not circular. The bulk relaxed-micromorphic parameters are taken from prior work [64] by the same group, but that work fits dispersion curves and static size effects independently of the present scattering targets, so it counts as external evidence rather than a self-citation chain. The central β-cut claim is also a real extrapolation: ρ∂Ω=0.715 kg/m² is calibrated at one frequency on a 5L×5L block and then tested at other frequencies and specimen sizes. The fact that Table 2 shows the fixed scalar is imperfect (e.g. worse than ρ=0 at low frequencies for N=5) demonstrates that the transfer is not statistically forced. However, the paper overstates the γ-cut as an 'independent validation' when ρ∂Ω|γ is obtained by the same fitting recipe, and the α-cut reference is explicitly a gauge choice rather than an independently measured baseline. These two issues make the validation framing partially circular, though the core extrapolation retains independent content.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Central claim rests on: (i) the relaxed micromorphic bulk model with parameters imported from previous fits by the same group; (ii) a variational derivation of a boundary inertia term that is mathematically simple; (iii) the modeling hypothesis that a scalar surface density suffices; and (iv) fully resolved simulations treated as ground truth. The interface densities are fitted to the very simulations they later 'validate' on in the γ case. No new particles or forces are introduced.

free parameters (6)
  • ρ∂Ω|β (interface surface density, β-cut) = 0.715 kg/m²
    Calibrated at ω=12.56 Mrad/s on a 5L×5L block by matching the fully-resolved β-cut scattering field (§3.3.2).
  • ρ∂Ω|γ (interface surface density, γ-cut) = 0.3575 kg/m²
    Calibrated using the same strategy in §4.2; labeled a validation, but it is a second fit rather than an out-of-sample test.
  • ρ∂Ω|α (reference surface density, α-cut) = 0
    Gauge choice: the α-cut is assumed to need no boundary correction (§3.3.2).
  • Bulk relaxed micromorphic elasticity parameters (κm, μm, μ*m, μc, κe, μe, μ*e) = see Table 1 (e.g. κe=12.83 GPa, μe=27.85 GPa)
    Imported from two-level static-dynamic fitting in prior work [45,64]; the bulk reference solution depends on these values.
  • Bulk micromorphic micro-inertia parameters (κγ, γ1, γ2, γ*1 for Jm and Te) = see Table 1
    Same prior fitting; needed for dispersion matching in the relaxed micromorphic model.
  • Apparent bulk density ρ = 1485 kg/m³
    From the unit-cell geometry; enters all bulk kinetic terms.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption The relaxed micromorphic model with the bulk parameters of Table 1 is an accurate homogenized description of the cross-cell metamaterial's dispersion and static response.
    Used throughout; parameters were fit in [45,64] to Bloch-Floquet and static size-effect data.
  • standard math Equilibrium follows from stationarity of the action functional with the given kinetic and strain energies.
    §3.1–3.2 variational derivation; standard calculus of variations.
  • ad hoc to paper Boundary effects of truncation are fully represented by a scalar, frequency- and size-independent kinetic surface energy; no surface elasticity or tensorial inertia.
    This is the central modeling hypothesis (§3.2, §5); the authors themselves list missing mechanisms.
  • ad hoc to paper The α-cut response coincides with the standard RMM with ρ∂Ω=0.
    §3.3.2: α-cut taken as reference; no independent justification is given.
  • ad hoc to paper The scale-separation breakdown threshold is λ=10.33L.
    Inferred from visual inspection of 5×5 and 20×20 simulations (§2.1, Appendix); used to organize the validation.
  • domain assumption Fully resolved microstructured simulations are ground truth; no experimental validation is presented.
    All comparisons are simulation-to-simulation (§2.1).

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Homogenized continuum models are widely used to describe wave propagation and band-gap behavior in mechanical metamaterials without explicitly resolving their microstructure. Their validity, however, typically relies on the classical separation of scales assumption, according to which the wavelength of the propagating disturbance is much larger than the characteristic size of the unit cell. In finite-size metamaterial samples and at higher frequencies, this assumption progressively breaks down, and the dynamic response becomes strongly influenced by the way the microstructure is truncated at the external boundaries. In this work we introduce a fundamentally new concept in the homogenized description of mechanical metamaterials: the inertial contribution of macroscopic interfaces. We show that different truncations of the same lattice generate boundaries with distinct mass distributions, which lead to measurable differences in the dynamic response of finite-sized specimens. To capture this complex mechanism in a homogenized framework, we extend the relaxed micromorphic model by introducing a kinetic surface energy defined on the boundary of the considered body. This generates an additional inertial term in the boundary conditions that can be seen as the homogenized counterpart of the interface inertia produced by the truncation of the microstructure. As a result, the homogenized model can now distinguish between finite-sized specimens that share identical bulk properties but differ only in the configuration of their interfaces. The proposed formulation preserves the variational structure of the relaxed micromorphic model while enabling the continuum to reproduce boundary-dependent responses observed in fully resolved simulations, particularly in frequency regimes ....... See the PDF for the full abstract.

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Figure 1. An infinite metamaterial is truncated using different planes; each boundary shows a different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. The benchmark problem considered here consists of a finite-sized metamaterial block embedded in a homogeneous isotropic medium and excited by an incident plane wave (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Dimension of the unit cell and geometric and material properties of the base material. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Three types of boundary, each associated with a different truncation plane. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png]
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Definition of the benchmark problem studied in this paper. Inspection lines 1 and 2 are to give [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Dispersion curves of the "cross-cell" metamaterial. Dashed lines show the Bloch-Floquet [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Calibration of the surface inertia for the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Response at lower frequencies of a 5L × 5L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of impl…
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Response at higher frequencies of a 5L×5L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of imple…
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Response at lower frequencies of a 10L × 10L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of im…
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Response at higher frequencies of a 10L × 10L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of i…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Response at lower frequencies of a 20L × 20L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of im…
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Response at higher frequencies of a 20L × 20L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of i…
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Normalized displacement field of a pressure plane wave as it propagates at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Study of the response of a 5.75L × 5.75L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of implem…
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Study of the response of a 10.75L × 10.75L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of impl…
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Study of the response of a 20.75L × 20.75L metamaterial block as it interacts with a pressure plane wave that propagates vertically downwards. The normalized displacement fields shown in each column correspond to the resulting scattering pattern for five types of impl…
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_21.png]
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_22.png]
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_23.png]
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Differentiated response of the scattering pattern, driven by the boundary contribution of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_24.png]

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