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Similar to their optic counterparts, acoustic components are anticipated to flexibly tailor the propagation of sound. However, the practical applications, e.g. for audible sound with large wavelengths, are frequently hampered by the issue…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-16 Kun Tang , Chunyin Qiu , Manzhu Ke , Jiuyang Lu , Yangtao Ye , Zhengyou Liu

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

Space folding techniques based on non-monotonic transforms lead to a new class of cylindrical isotropic acoustic cloaks with a constant negative density and a spatially varying negative bulk modulus. We consider an external cloak consisting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Sebastien Guenneau , Bruno Lombard , Cedric Bellis

Limiting the total weight of an acoustic cloak is of fundamental importance in underwater applications, where buoyancy of the cloaked object is desirable. Unfortunately, it is well known that traditional cloaking strategies imply either a…

The acoustic cloaking theory of Norris (2008) permits considerable freedom in choosing the transformation function f from physical to virtual space. The standard process for defining cloak materials is to first define f and then evaluate…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-05 Nachiket H. Gokhale , Jeffrey L. Cipolla , Andrew N. Norris

The use of cylindrical elastic shells as elements in acoustic metamaterial devices is demonstrated through simulations and underwater measurements of a cylindrical-to-plane wave lens. Transformation acoustics (TA) of a circular region to a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Alexey S. Titovich , Michael R. Haberman , Andrew N. Norris

Acoustic wave modulation plays a pivotal role in various applications, including sound-field reconstruction, wireless communication, and particle manipulation, among others. However, current acoustic metamaterial and metasurface designs…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Ao Chen , Xin Zhang

Significant reduction in target strength and radiation signature can be achieved by surrounding an object with multiple concentric layers comprised of three acoustic fluids. The idea is to make a finely layered shell with the thickness of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-19 Andrew N. Norris , Adam J. Nagy

This is a survey of approximate cloaking using transformation optics for acoustic and electromagnetic waves.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Hoai-Minh Nguyen , Michael S. Vogelius

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

Electromagnetic invisibility cloak requires material with anisotropic distribution of the constitutive parameters deduced from a geometrical transformation as first proposed by Pendry et al. [Science 312, 1780 (2006)]. In this paper, we…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ying Huang , Yijun Feng , Tian Jian

Metamaterials have paved the way to unprecedented control of the electromagnetic field1,2. The conjunction with space coordinate transformation has led to a novel "relativity inspired" approach for the control of light propagation.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Boubacar Kante , Dylan Germain , Andre de Lustrac

We experimentally demonstrated an alternative approach of invisibility cloaking that can combine technical advantages of all current major cloaking strategies in a unified manner and thus can solve bottlenecks of individual strategies. A…

We present a new method to create an active cloak for a rigid inclusion in a thin plate, and analyse flexural waves within such a plate governed by the Kirchhoff plate equation. We consider scattering of both a plane wave and a cylindrical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 J. O'Neill , O. Selsil , R. C. McPhedran , A. B. Movchan , N. V. Movchan

Underwater sound isolation has been a long-standing fundamental issue in industry and military fields. Starting from a simple theoretical model, here an air-sealed metasurface is proposed to overcome this problem. Comparing with the sample…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 Xiaoxue Bai , Chunyin Qiu , Xinhua Wen , Shasha Peng , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

In this paper, we study the underwater acoustic localization in the presence of environmental mismatch. Especially, we exploit a pre-trained neural network for the acoustic wave propagation in a gradient-based optimization framework to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Dariush Kari , Yongjie Zhuang , Andrew C. Singer

Through a particularly chosen coordinate transformation, we propose an optical carpet cloak that only requires homogeneous anisotropic dielectric material. The proposed cloak could be easily imitated and realized by alternative layers of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Xiaofei Xu , Yijun Feng , Yu Hao , Juming Zhao , Tian Jiang

Acoustic invisibility of a cloaking system in turbulent uids has been poorly understood. Here we show that evident scattering would appear in turbulent wakes owing to the submergence of a classical cloaking device. The inherent mechanism is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-25 Xun Huang , Siyang Zhong

In the past few years, carpet cloaking attracted interests because of its feasibility at optical frequencies and potential in stealth technologies. Metasurfaces have been proposed as a method to engineer ultra-thin carpet cloaking surfaces…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 L. Y. Hsu , A. Ndao , B. Kanté

Trajectory of surface gravity waves in potential flow regime is affected by the gravitational acceleration, water density, and seabed depth. While the gravitational acceleration and water density are approximately constant, the effect of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-11 Takahito Iida , Ahmad Zareei , Mohammad-Reza Alam