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Here we theoretically and computationally study the frequency dependence of phase speed and attenuation for marine sediments from the perspective of granular mechanics. We leverage recent theoretical insights from the granular physics…

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The underwater acoustic channel is characterized by a path loss that depends not only on the transmission distance, but also on the signal frequency. As a consequence, transmission bandwidth depends on the transmission distance, a feature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Daniel E. Lucani , Milica Stojanovic , Muriel Médard

We calculate the absorption spectra of a conductive disk in the presence of a metal gate. In our analysis, we use the conductivity described by the Drude model. We examine the frequency and line width of the absorption resonances associated…

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When waves impinge on a disordered material they are back-scattered and form a highly complex interference pattern. Suppressing any such distortions in the free propagation of a wave is a challenging task with many applications in a number…

Architected materials that control elastic wave propagation are essential in vibration mitigation and sound attenuation. Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials use band gap engineering to forbid certain frequencies from propagating…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-21 Kathryn H. Matlack , Anton Bauhofer , Sebastian Krödel , Antonio Palermo , Chiara Daraio

The paper develops a new integral micromorphic elastic continuum model, which can describe dispersion properties of band-gap metamaterials, i.e., metamaterials that inhibit propagation of waves in a certain frequency range. The enrichment…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Michal Šmejkal , Milan Jirásek , Martin Horák

The jamming transition is an important feature of granular materials, with prior work showing an excess of low frequency modes in the granular analog to the density of states, the granular density of modes. In this work, we present an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-30 Sydney A. Blue , Salem C. Wright , Eli T. Owens

Using time as an additional design parameter in electromagnetism, photonics, and wave physics is attracting considerable research interest, motivated by the possibility to explore physical phenomena and engineering opportunities beyond the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-12 Matteo Ciabattoni , Zeki Hayran , Francesco Monticone

One-dimensional nonlinear phononic crystals have been assembled from periodic diatomic chains of stainless steel cylinders alternated with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) spheres. We report the presence of acoustic band gaps in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-27 E. B. Herbold , J. Kim , V. F. Nesterenko , S. Wang , C. Daraio

When waves are propagated through a medium with scatters and these elements are positioned periodically, as in the crystal structures, multiple scattering leads to a phenomenon known as banded structures. This means that waves can propagate…

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We describe here a class of acoustic metamaterials with fractal Hilbert space-filling and coiled geometry with equal tortuosity for noise mitigation. Experiments are performed using a four-microphone impedance tube and benchmarked against…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Gianni Comandini , Codor Khodr , Valeska Ting , Mahdi Azarpeyvand , Fabrizio Scarpa

In this paper, we propose a deep learning based model for Acoustic Anomaly Detection of Machines, the task for detecting abnormal machines by analysing the machine sound. By conducting extensive experiments, we indicate that multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Tin Nguyen , Lam Pham , Phat Lam , Dat Ngo , Hieu Tang , Alexander Schindler

We investigate theoretically the efficiency of deep-space optical communication in the presence of background noise. With decreasing average signal power spectral density, a scaling gap opens up between optimized simple-decoded pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Marcin Jarzyna , Wojciech Zwoliński , Michał Jachura , Konrad Banaszek

We show some new properties of the acoustic propagation in two-dimensional sonic crystals, formed by parallel rigid cylinders placed in air. The transmission through slabs of sonic crystals and the associated band structures are considered.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Liang-Shan Chen , Chao-Hsien Kuo , Zhen Ye

Using transfer-matrix methods, we investigate the response of a multilayered metamaterial system containing defects to an incident acoustic plane wave at normal or oblique incidence. The transmission response is composed of pass-bands with…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-28 D. Psiachos , M. M. Sigalas

The possibility of shifting sound energy from lower to higher frequency bands is investigated. The system configuration considered is a segmented structure having non-linear stiffness characteristics. It is proposed here that such a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Srinivas Varanasi , Thomas Siegmund , J. Stuart Bolton

We analyse the ultrasound waves reflected by multiple bubbles in the linearized time-dependent acoustic model. The generated time-dependent wave field is estimated close to the bubbles. The motivation of this study comes from the therapy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Arpan Mukherjee , Mourad Sini

Metasurface based super absorbers exhibit near unity absorbance. While the absorption peak can be tuned by the geometry/size of the sub-wavelength resonator, broadband absorption can be obtained by placing multiple resonators of various…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-03 Arvind Nagarajan , Kumar Vivek , Manav Shah , Venu Gopal Achanta , Giampiero Gerini

Particulate materials include powders, emulsions, composites, and many others. This is why measuring these has become important for both industry and scientific applications. For industrial applications, the greatest need is to measure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Paulo S. Piva , Kevish K. Napal , Art L. Gower

This paper is concerned with the time-dependent Maxwell's equations for a plane interface between a negative material described by the Drude model and the vacuum, which fill, respectively, two complementary half-spaces. In a first paper, we…

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