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Dynamic cloaking of a diamond-shaped hole in elastic plate

Classical Physics 2023-08-02 v1 Applied Physics

Abstract

Invisibility cloaks for flexural waves have been mostly examined in the continuous-wave regime, while invisibility is likely to deteriorate for short pulses. Here, we propose the practical realization of a unidirectional invisibility cloak for flexural waves based on an area-preserving coordinate transformation. Time-resolved experiments reveal how the invisibility cloak deviates a pulsed plane-wave from its initial trajectory, and how the initial wavefront perfectly recombines behind the cloak, leaving the diamond-shaped hole invisible, notwithstanding the appearance of a forerunner. Three-dimensional full-elasticity simulations support our experimental observations.

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@article{arxiv.2209.11760,
  title  = {Dynamic cloaking of a diamond-shaped hole in elastic plate},
  author = {Kun Tang and Eitam Luz and David Amram and Luna Kadysz and Sebastien Guenneau and Patrick Sebbah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.11760},
  year   = {2023}
}