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Asymmetric piezoelectric composites exhibit coupling between their macroscopic linear momentum and electric field, a coupling that does not appear at the microscopic scale. This electromomentum coupling constitutes an additional knob to…

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We study the propagation of sound waves in a three-dimensional, infinite ambient flow with weak random fluctuations of the mean particle velocity and speed of sound. We more particularly address the regime where the acoustic wavelengths are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Jean-Luc Akian , Éric Savin

Using a combination of multipole methods and the method of matched asymptotics, we present a solution procedure for acoustic plane wave scattering by a single Helmholtz resonator in two dimensions. Closed-form representations for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-07 M. J. A. Smith , P. A. Cotterill , D. Nigro , W. J. Parnell , I. D. Abrahams

Waves scattered at a self-oscillating mode can exhibit superradiance, or net amplification of an external harmonic excitation. This exotic behavior, arising from the nonlinear coupling between the mode and the incident wave, is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Tiemo Pedergnana , Nicolas Noiray

The physical properties of a periodic distribution of absorbent resonators is used in this work to design a tunable wideband bandstop acoustic filter. Analytical and numerical simulations as well as experimental validations show that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Romero-García , J. V. Sánchez-Pérez , L. M. Garcia-Raffi

We derive bounds on Wilson coefficients in gravitational effective field theories using fully crossing symmetric dispersion relations. These sum rules naturally isolate finite subsets of low-energy couplings without relying on the forward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Celina Pasiecznik

Willis dynamic homogenization theory revealed that the effective linear momentum of elastic composites is coupled to their effective strain. % This result, which is partially due to asymmetry at the subwavelength scale, implies that…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Kevin Muhafra , Michael R. Haberman , Gal Shmuel

A method to derive homogeneous effective constitutive equations for periodically layered elastic media is proposed. The crucial and novel idea underlying the procedure is that the coefficients of the dynamic effective medium can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-22 A. L. Shuvalov , A. A. Kutsenko , A. N. Norris , O. Poncelet

This work presents a multiple scattering formulation of two dimensional acoustic metamaterials. It is shown that in the low frequency limit multiple scattering allows us to define frequency-dependent effective acoustic parameters for arrays…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel Torrent , José Sánchez-Dehesa

This paper presents a study of acoustic scattering by a cylinder of either infinite or finite length near a flat pressure-release surface. A novel self-consistent method is developed to describe the multiple scattering interactions between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhen Ye , You-Yu Chen

Arbitrary waves incident on a solid embedded nanoparticle are studied. The acoustic vibrational frequencies are shown to correspond to the poles of the scattering cross section in the complex frequency plane. The location of the poles is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Saviot , D. B. Murray

Superscatterers are known to expand the rigid boundary of an object thereby enhancing the scattering cross section of the object. The design philosophy of the acoustic superscatterers is based on partially-resonant systems in which a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Vineeth P. Ramachandran , Prabhu Rajagopal

We show that coupling among multiple resonances can be conveniently introduced and controlled by boundary wave scattering. We demonstrate this principle in optical microcavities of quasi-circular shape, where the couplings of multiple modes…

Using both multiple scattering theory and effective medium theory, we find that an acoustic metamaterial consisting of an array of spinning cylinders can possess a host of unusual properties including folded bulk and interface-state bands…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Degang Zhao , Yao-Ting Wang , Kin-Hung Fung , Zhao-Qing Zhang , C. T. Chan

The multipole expansion is a powerful framework for analyzing how subwavelength-size objects scatter waves in optics or acoustics. The calculation of multipole moments traditionally uses the scatterer's center of mass as the reference…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Nikita Ustimenko , Carsten Rockstuhl , Alexander V. Kildishev

Space-time materials are obtained by modulating a physical medium with a traveling-wave perturbation of one or several of its constitutive parameters, such as the density or the bulk modulus in the case of acoustic materials. When this…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Galiana , J. Redondo , R. Picó , V. J. Sánchez-Morcillo

This paper concerns the dynamical behaviors of acoustic wave motion driven by a force acting through the boundary. If the boundary force is a suitable control, we show that the dynamical system associated to the acoustic wave motion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Zhe Jiao , Xiao Li , Qin Zhao

A theoretical study on the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in a sub-wavelength anisotropic waveguide is conducted. The optical, photoelastic and mechanical anisotropies of the waveguide materials are all taken into account. First, the…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Xiao-Xing Su , Xiao-Shuang Li , Yue-Sheng Wang , Heow Pueh Lee

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

This article introduces a methodology for inducing wavenumber bandgaps via alternating Willis coupling signs. A non-reciprocal wave equation of Willis-type is first considered, and its wave dispersion analyses are carried out via the…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-25 Hasan B. Al Ba'ba'a