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Longitudinal wave propagation is considered in a pair of waveguides connected by bilinear spring systems. The nature of the nonlinearity causes the compressive and tensile force-displacement relations of the bilinear spring to behave in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhaocheng Lu , Andrew N. Norris

We investigate elastic-wave propagation in a spatially-dispersive multilayered, totally passive metamaterial system. At oblique incidence a longitudinal (acoustic) wave can convert to transverse in the solid material comprising the layers,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 D. Psiachos , M. M. Sigalas

Swimming and flying animals demonstrate remarkable adaptations to diverse flow conditions in their environments. In this study, we aim to advance the fundamental understanding of the interaction between flexible bodies and heterogeneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Abdur Rehman , Daniel Floryan

In underwater acoustic waveguides a pressure field can be decomposed over three kinds of modes: the propagating modes, the radiating modes and the evanescent modes. In this paper, we analyze the effects produced by a randomly perturbed free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Christophe Gomez

The equations of motion in a macroscopically inhomogeneous porous medium saturated by a fluid are derived. As a first verification of the validity of these equations, a two-layer rigid frame porous system considered as one single porous…

Investigating wave propagation in fluid enables a variety of important applications in underwater communications, object detections and unmanned robot control. Conventionally, momentum and spin reveal fundamental physical properties about…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Long , Jie Ren , Hong Chen

Non-reciprocal systems have been shown to exhibit various interesting wave phenomena, such as the non-Hermitian skin effect, which causes accumulation of modes at boundaries. Recent research on discrete systems showed that this effect can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Felix Langfeldt , Joe Tan , Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

We present here a comprehensive derivation for the speed of a small bottom-heavy sphere forced by a transverse acoustic field and thereby establish how density inhomogeneities may play a critical role in acoustic propulsion. The sphere is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-13 Francois Nadal , Sebastien Michelin

Waves are propagating disturbances that redistribute energy across space. Previous studies have shown that for waves propagating through an inhomogeneously moving mean flow, the conserved quantity is wave action rather than wave energy,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-29 Zhaohua Wu , Jie Sun , Zhe-Min Tan , Ming Cai , Yongyun Hu , Norden E. Huang

Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinearities in crystalline media have enabled non-reciprocal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Aaron Winn , Justine Parmentier , Eleni Katifori , Martin Brandenbourger

Acoustic waves propagation of in composite of water with embedded double-layered silicone resin/silver rods is considered. Approximate values of effective dynamical constitutive parameters are obtained. Frequency ranges of simultaneous…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-22 Ivan Lisenkov , Roman Popov , Sergey Nikitov

A one-way wave equation is an evolution equation in one of the space directions that describes (approximately) a wave field. The exact wave field is approximated in a high frequency, microlocal sense. Here we derive the pseudodifferential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christiaan C. Stolk

This study introduces a novel method to break wave transmission reciprocity by leveraging the synchronization of self-oscillators. An experimental demonstration with aeroacoustic cavities is presented. They behave as weakly nonlinear limit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Alexander K. Stoychev , Ulrich Kuhl , Nicolas Noiray

Synthetic magnetism has been recently realized using spatiotemporal modulation patterns, producing non-reciprocal steering of charge-neutral particles such as photons and phonons. Here, we design and experimentally demonstrate a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Zhaoxian Chen , Zhengwei Li , Jingkai Weng , Bin Liang , Yanqing Lu , Jianchun Cheng , Andrea Alu

We present a novel approach for simulating acoustic (pressure) wave propagation across different media separated by a diffuse interface through the use of a weak compressibility formulation. Our method builds on our previous work on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Abbas Ballout , Oscar A. Marino , Gerasimos Ntoukas , Gonzalo Rubio , Esteban Ferrer

Reciprocity is a fundamental principle governing various physical systems, which ensures that the transfer function between any two points in space is identical, regardless of geometrical or material asymmetries. Breaking this transmission…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Corentin Coulais , Dimitrios Sounas , Andrea Alù

We examine the efficacy of streamwise traveling waves generated by a zero-net-mass-flux surface blowing and suction for controlling the onset of turbulence in a channel flow. For small amplitude actuation, we utilize weakly nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-29 Rashad Moarref , Mihailo R. Jovanović

The weakly nonlinear interaction of sound and linearly polarised Alfv{\'e}n waves propagating in the same direction along an applied magnetic field is studied. It is found that a sound wave is coupled to the Alfv{\'e}n wave with double…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Zaqarashvili , B. Roberts

The dynamics of coherent nonlinear wave groups is shown to be drastically different from the classical scenario of weakly nonlinear wave interactions. The coherent groups generate non-resonant (bound) waves which can be synchronized with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Slunyaev

In these last years, many studies have focalized on the design of reliable underwater acoustic communication systems. However, the ocean acoustic communication channel exhibits strong amplitude and phase fluctuations and the phenomena of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Yasin Yousif Al-Aboosi , Hussein A. Abdulnabi