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General equations describing shear displacements in incompressible hyperelastic materials, holding for an arbitrary form of strain energy density function, are presented and applied to the description of nonlinear Love-type waves…

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Ordinarily, a trimaterial structure comprising a sufficiently thin metal film interposed between two homogeneous dielectric materials guides compound plasmon-polariton (CPP) waves, for which the fields on both sides of the metal film decay…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Chenzhang Zhou , Tom G. Mackay

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are designed by periodically arranged subwavelength geometries, allowing a tailored manipulation of the electromagnetic response of matter. Here, we exploit temporal variations of permittivity inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

In the linear approximation, we study a one-dimensional problem of the reflectionless wave propagation on a surface of a shallow duct with the spatially varying water depth, duct width, and current. We show that both global and bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-08 Semyon Churilov , Yury Stepanyants

A homogeneous isotropic compressible Hadamard material has the property that an infinitesimal longitudinal homogeneous plane wave may propagate in every direction when the material is maintained in a state of arbitrary finite static…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-09 Michel Destrade , Michael Hayes

The present paper has been framed to show the effect of damping on the propagation of torsional waves in an initially stressed, dissipative, incompressible cylinder of infinite length. A governing equation has been formulated on Biot's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-31 M. M. Selim

We study Dyakonov surface waveguide modes in a waveguide represented by an interface of two anisotropic media confined between two air half-spaces. We analyze such modes in terms of perturbation theory in the approximation of weak…

It is shown that the Maxwell's equations for surface electromagnetic TM-waves, propagating along the plane boundary between two nonlinear dielectrics with arbitrary diagonal tensor of dielectric permittivity, depending of |{\bf E}|, can be…

atom-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 Yu. P. Rybakov , B. Saha

Transmission spectra of metallic films or membranes perforated by arrays of subwavelength slits or holes have been widely interpreted as resonance absorption by surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs). Alternative interpretations involving…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Gay , O. Alloschery , B. Vairis de Lesegno , J. Weiner , H. J. Lezec

We study chaotic plane sections of some particular family of triply periodic surfaces. The question about possible behavior of such sections was posed by S. P. Novikov. We prove some estimations on the diffusion rate of these sections using…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Artur Avila , Pascal Hubert , Alexandra Skripchenko

We analyze theoretically the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons about a metallic corner with a finite bend radius, using a one-dimensional model analogous to the scattering from a finite-depth potential well. We obtain expressions…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keisuke Hasegawa , Jens U. Noeckel , Miriam Deutsch

This paper reports theoretical and numerical investigations on free molecular gas flows through micro-channels. Both diffusely and specularly reflective channel surfaces are considered. Gaskinetic methods are adopted to develop the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Shiying Cai , Chunpei Cai , Jun Li

A direct numerical simulation of the interaction of plane capillary waves on the surface of a liquid dielectric in an external tangential electric field taking into account viscous forces has been performed. It has been shown that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-18 Evgeny A. Kochurin

We study the behavior of wave propagation in materials for which not all of the principle elements of the permeability and permittivity tensors have the same sign. We find that a wide variety of effects can be realized in such media,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Smith , D. Schurig

A theoretical study is presented of surface waves at a monomolecular surfactant film between an isotropic liquid and a nematic liquid crystal for the case when the surfactant film is in the isotropic two-dimensional fluid phase and induces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-15 S. V. Lishchuk

The selection of a higher vapor deposition angle when growing a columnar thin film (CTF) leads to surface-wave propagation at a planar metal-CTF interface with phase velocity of lower magnitude and shorter propagation range. Acordingly, a…

Optics · Physics 2007-06-29 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , John A. Polo

We predict the existence of surface waves in layered superconductors in the THz frequency range, below the Josephson plasma frequency $\omega_J$. This wave propagates along the vacuum-superconductor interface and dampens in both transverse…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey Savel'ev , Valery Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

We propose a surface-wave dispersion retrieval method and synthesis technique that applies to bianisotropic metasurfaces that are embedded in symmetric or asymmetric environments. Specifically, we use general zero-thickness sheet transition…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-01 Karim Achouri , Olivier J. F. Martin

Material surface may have a remarkable effect on the mechanical behavior of magneto-electro-elastic (or multiferroic) structures at nano-scale. In this paper, a surface magneto-electro-elasticity theory (or effective boundary condition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-29 Bin Wu , Chunli Zhang , Weiqiu Chen , Chuanzeng Zhang

We address ring-shaped surface waves supported by defocusing thermal media with circular cross-section. Such waves exist because of the balance between repulsion from the interface and deflection of light from the bulk medium due to…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner