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We develop a very general theory on the regularized approximate invisibility cloaking for the wave scattering governed by the Helmholtz equation in any space dimensions via the approach of transformation optics.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-04 Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Luca Rondi , Gunther Uhlmann

The ability to control electromagnetic fields, heat currents, electric currents, and other physical phenomena by coordinate transformation methods has resulted in novel functionalities, such as cloaking, field rotations, and concentration…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Troy Stedman , Lilia M. Woods

We introduce a new concept for the manipulation of fluid flow around three-dimensional bodies. Inspired by transformation optics, the concept is based on a mathematical idea of coordinate transformations and physically implemented with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-07 Yaroslav A. Urzhumov , David R. Smith

A cylindrical pipe with closed ends and with a partition in-between exhibits acoustic modes in the two, thus formed, one-dimensional cavities at certain frequencies. A partial transmission through the partition leads to interaction between…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-06-19 Arjit Kant Gupta , Anjan K. Gupta

Acoustic cloaks that make object undetectable to sound waves have potential applications in a variety of scenarios and have received increasing interests recently. However, the experimental realization of a three-dimensional (3D) acoustic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 Weiwei Kan , Bin Liang , Ruiqi Li , Xue Jiang , Xin-ye Zou , Lei-lei Yin , Jianchun Cheng

Steering waves in elastic solids is more demanding than steering waves in electromagnetism or acoustics. As a result, designing material distributions which are the counterpart of optical invisibility cloaks in elasticity poses a major…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-10 Muamer Kadic , Martin Wegener , Andre Nicolet , Frederic Zolla , Sebastien Guenneau , Andre Diatta

Acoustic metafluids are defined as the class of fluids that allow one domain of fluid to acoustically mimic another, as exemplified by acoustic cloaks. It is shown that the most general class of acoustic metafluids are materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-28 Andrew N. Norris

We introduce a class of optical media based on adiabatically modulated, dielectric-only, and potentially extremely low-loss, photonic crystals. The media we describe represent a generalization of the eikonal limit of transformation optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-22 Yaroslav A. Urzhumov , David R. Smith

Time varying media recently emerged as promising candidates to fulfill the dream of controlling the wave frequency without nonlinear effects. However, frequency conversion remains limited by the dynamics of the variations of the propagation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Benjamin Apffel , Emmanuel Fort

It has recently been shown theoretically that the time-dependent heat conduction equation is form-invariant under curvilinear coordinate transformations. Thus, in analogy to transformation optics, fictitious transformed space can be mapped…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-14 Robert Schittny , Muamer Kadic , Sebastien Guenneau , Martin Wegener

Combining the tools for transforming space-time developed for General Relativity with the capabilities of artificially structured metamaterials, an entirely new means of controlling electromagnetic fields has emerged. Here, we utilize a…

In this paper, transformation optics is presented together with a generalization of invisibility cloaking: instead of an empty region of space, an inhomogeneous structure is transformed via Pendry's map in order to give, to any object…

Optics · Physics 2010-02-09 Andre Nicolet , Frederic Zolla , Christophe Geuzaine

In transformation optics, the space transformation is viewed as the deformation of a material. The permittivity and permeability tensors in the transformed space are found to correlate with the deformation field of the material. By solving…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jin Hu , Xiaoming Zhou , Gengkai Hu

Hitherto acoustic cloaking devices, which conceal objects externally, have depended on the objects' characteristics. Despite previous works, we design cloaking device placed neighbor an arbitrary object and makes it invisible without the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zahra Basiri , Mohammad Hosein Fakheri , Ali Abdolali

The onset of transformation optics has opened avenues for designing of a plenitude of applications related to propagation of electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed using a coordinate…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-30 H. H. Sidhwa , R. P. Aiyar , S. V. Kulkarni

A transformation optics approach was used to derive a general method for designing electromagnetic devices able to manipulate the wave vectors in the specific manner required by the functionality of the device. While the wave paths inside…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-19 Mircea Giloan

We investigate the potential of transformation optics for the design of novel electromagnetic cavities. First, we determine the dispersion relation of bound modes in a device performing an arbitrary radial coordinate transformation and we…

Space-time modulated metamaterials support extraordinary rich applications, such as parametric amplification, frequency conversion and non-reciprocal transmission. However, experimental realization of space-time modulation is highly…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Xinhua Wen , Xinghong Zhu , Alvin Fan , Wing Yim Tam , Jie Zhu , Fabrice Lemoult , Mathias Fink , Jensen Li

In recent years a remarkable progress was made in the construction of spatial cloaks using the methods of transformation optics and metamaterials. The temporal cloaking, i.e. the cloaking of an event in spacetime, was also widely studied by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Gregory Eskin

In elasticity, the design of a cloaking for an inclusion or a void to leave a vibrational field unperturbed by its presence, so to achieve its invisibility, is a thoroughly analyzed, but still unchallenged, mechanical problem. The 'cloaking…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 D. Misseroni , A. B. Movchan , D. Bigoni