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I propose a straightforward generalization of the projection scheme for elastic tensors introduced by Moakher and Norris [J. Elasticity 85, 215 (2006)] that takes into account also rotations. The "closest" tensor of any desired symmetry to…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-07 Miguel A. Caro

The paper addresses an important issue of cloaking transformations for fourth-order partial differential equations representing flexural waves in thin elastic plates. It is shown that, in contrast with the Helmholtz equation, the general…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 D. J. Colquitt , M. Brun , M. Gei , A. B. Movchan , N. V. Movchan , I. S. Jones

This paper considers one-dimensional equations of acoustics equations of inhomogeneous media and the system of gas dynamics equations with constant entropy. Using the Riemann approach, the gas dynamics equations are reduced to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 O. V. Kaptsov

The advances in geometric approaches to optical devices due to transformation optics has led to the development of cloaks, concentrators, and other devices. It has also been shown that transformation optics can be used to gravitational…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-13 Sophia R. Sklan , Baowen Li

Consider the wave propagation in a two-layered medium consisting of a homogeneous compressible air or fluid on top of a homogeneous isotropic elastic solid. The interface between the two layers is assumed to be an unbounded rough surface.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Yixian Gao , Peijun Li , Bo Zhang

Transformation elasticity, by analogy with transformation acoustics and optics, converts material domains without altering wave properties, thereby enabling cloaking and related effects. By noting the similarity between transformation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 A. N. Norris , W. J. Parnell

Contrary to transformation optics (TO), there exist many possibilities for transformed relations of material property and field variable in case of transformation acoustics (TA). To investigate the underlining mechanism and develop a…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-06 Jin Hu , Xiaoning Liu , Gengkai Hu

Rotationally resonant metamaterials are leveraged to answer a longstanding question regarding the existence of transformation-invariant elastic materials and the ad-hoc possibility of transformationbased passive cloaking in full plane…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 H. Nassar , Y. Y. Chen , G. L. Huang

Transformation methods have stimulated many interesting applications of manipulating electromagnetic and acoustic waves by using metamaterials, such as super-lens imaging and cloaking. These successes are mainly due to the form-invariant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hexuan Gao , Zhihai Xiang

The asymmetric transformation elasticity offers a promising method to control elastic waves. However, this method requires elastic materials that support asymmetric stresses, which is not objective within the Cauchy elasticity framework.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Dingxin Sun , Yi Chen , Xiaoning Liu , Gengkai Hu

A general conformal mapping is proposed to design omnidirectional broadband wave absorbers by transformation method. When applied to electromagnetic (EM) and acoustic waves, the existing material parameters of the EM and acoustic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-05-25 Zheng Chang , Gengkai Hu

The transformation method is a powerful tool for providing the constitutive parameters of the transformed material in the new coordinates. In transformation elasticity, a general curvilinear change of coordinates transforms conventional…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Yangyang Chen , Hussein Nassar , Guoliang Huang

There has been fascinating work on creating artistic transformations of images by Gatys. This was revolutionary in how we can in some sense alter the 'style' of an image while generally preserving its 'content'. In our work, we present a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Prateek Verma , Julius O. Smith

We derive closed-form solutions for reverberant elastography in anisotropic elastic media by adapting the framework used in electromagnetic theory to treat transverse isotropic materials. Different sample-setup geometries are analyzed,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Luis A. Aleman-Castaneda , Fernando Zvietcovich , Kevin J. Parker

Elastic models of the glass transition relate the relaxation dynamics and the elastic properties of structural glasses. They are based on the assumption that the relaxation dynamics occurs through activated events in the energy landscape…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-20 M. Pica Ciamarra , Peter Sollich

In this paper we study point transformed electromagnetic invisibility cloaks in transformation media that are obtained by transformation from general anisotropic media. We assume that there are several cloaks located in different points in…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ricardo Weder

Pentamode metamaterials are a class of acoustic metafluids that are characterized by a divergence free modified stress tensor. Such materials have an unconventional anisotropic stiffness and isotropic mass density, which allow themselves to…

In this paper, we apply transformation-based optics to the derivation of a general class of transparent metamaterial slabs. By means of analytical and numerical full-wave studies, we explore their image displacement/formation capabilities,…

Open phononic systems including resonators radiating inside an unbounded medium support localized phonons characterized by a complex frequency. In this context, the concept of elastic quasinormal mode (QNM) arises naturally, as in the cases…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-04-06 Vincent Laude , Yan-Feng Wang

A numerical solver for the elastic wave eigenmodes in acoustic waveguides of inhomogeneous cross-section is presented. Operating under the assumptions of linear, isotropic materials, it utilizes a finite-difference method on a staggered…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Nathan Dostart , Yangyang Liu , Miloš A. Popović