Design and analysis of nonlinear-transformation-based broadband cloaking for acoustic wave propagation

A coordinate-transformation method can be used to design invisibility cloaks for many types of waves, including acoustic waves. The traditional method for designing a cloak depends on a transformation from a virtual space to a physical space. Previous acoustic cloaks that are mainly designed with linear-transformation-based acoustics have drawbacks that acoustic wave trajectories in the cloaks cannot be controlled and tuned. This work uses a nonlinear mapping from a ray trajectory perspective to construct acoustic cloaks with tunable non-singular material properties. Use of a ray trajectory equation is a straightforward and alternate way to study propagation characteristics of different types of waves, which allows more flexibility in controlling the waves. A broadband cylindrical cloak for acoustic waves in an inviscid fluid is realized with layered non-singular, homogeneous, and isotropic materials based on a nonlinear transformation. Some advantages and improvements of the invisibility nonlinear-transformation cloak over a traditional linear-transformation cloak are analyzed. The invisibility capability of the nonlinear-transformation cloak can be tuned by adjusting a design parameter that is shown to have influence on the acoustic wave energy flowing into the region inside the cloak. Numerical examples show that the nonlinear-transformation cloak is more effective for making a domain undetectable by acoustic waves in an inviscid fluid and shielding acoustic waves from outside the cloak than the linear-transformation cloak in a broad frequency range. The methodology developed here can be used to design nonlinear-transformation cloaks for other types of waves.     

Plasmonic cloaking and scattering cancelation for electromagnetic and acoustic waves

One popular approach to cloaking objects from electromagnetic waves at moderately long wavelengths is the scattering cancelation technique. This mechanism is based on the use of a single homogeneous thin layer to cover an object of interest in order to provide scattering suppression in a given frequency band. This approach has also been recently extended to acoustic waves. This paper provides an investigation of the physical nature of scattering cancelation by a uniform thin layer for both electromagnetic and acoustic waves in inviscid fluids. Two distinct scattering cancelation regions are obtained within the available parameter space: a non-resonant plasmonic cloaking region and an anti-resonant cloaking region, which are identified and compared in both the electromagnetic and acoustic domains. Although both types of operations allow for the suppression of the dominant scattering orders, the resulting internal fields and physical functionality of the cloaks present distinct differences between the two domains. We discuss analogies and differences between these functionalities and their implications in electromagnetic and acoustic cloaking problems, with an insight into their practical implementation.     

Antiplane elastic wave cloaking using metamaterials,homogenization and hyperelasticity

We consider the problem of how to cloak objects from antiplane elastic waves using two alternative techniques. The first is the use of a layered metamaterial in the spirit of the work of Torrent and Sanchez-Dehesa (2008) who considered acoustic cloaks, motivated by homogenization theories, whilst the second is the use of a hyperelastic cloak in the spirit of the work of Parnell et al. (2012). We extend the hyperelastic cloaking theory to the case of a Mooney–Rivlin material since this is often considered to be a more realistic constitutive model of rubber-like media than the neo-Hookean case studied by Parnell et al. (2012), certainly at the deformations required to produce a significant cloaking effect. Although not perfect, the Mooney–Rivlin material appears to be a reasonable hyperelastic cloak. This is clearly encouraging for applications. We quantify the effectiveness of the various cloaks considered by plotting the scattering cross section as a function of frequency, noting that this would be zero for a perfect cloak.     

Broadband optimization of a pentamode-layered spherical acoustic waveguide

Transformational acoustics offers the theoretical possibility of cloaking obstacles within fluids, provided metamaterials having continuously varying bulk moduli and densities can be found or constructed. Realistically, materials with the proper, continuously varying anisotropies do not presently exist. Discretely layered cloaks having constant material parameters within each layer are a viable alternative, but due to their discrete nature, may become ineffective outside of narrow frequency ranges. Because of such limitations, there is interest in finding discretely layered systems that can be effective in as wide as possible bandwidth without the need for unrealizable material properties within each layer. The present work introduces a novel methodology for finding optimal material parameters for use in such layered cloaks. In principle, the technique could be applied to any acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problem, but for purposes of demonstration, this paper considers a fluid-loaded acoustically hard sphere with a cloak that comprised layered pentamodes, whose material properties are constrained to lie within reasonable ranges relative to the density and bulk modulus of water.     

五零能模式材料设计的非线性有限元计算方法

五零能模式材料是一种新型人工超材料,特征为其弹性模量矩阵的6个特征值中5个为零,可用等效体积模量来描述,表现出类似流体的性质,可被应用于声学隐声斗篷的设计中。然而,根据A.N.Norris[1]提出的理论,设计五零能模式材料时,与应用变换声学方法设计一般声学人工超材料不同,要求其满足一非线性偏微分方程约束。本文利用非线性有限元的完全拉格朗日方法,推导了这一偏微分方程的弱形式,并给出了相应的非线性有限元计算列式,以及迭代求解的具体算法。最后,给出了五零能摸式材料设计的二维和三维坐标变换数值算例。     

Assembling hydrodynamic cloaks to conceal complex objects from drag

Transformation hydrodynamics and the corresponding metamaterials have been proposed as a means to exclude the drag force acting on an object. Here, we report a strategy to deploy the hydrodynamic cloaks in a more practical manner by assembling different-shaped cloaking parts. Our strategy is to first model a square-shaped cloak and a carpet cloak and then combine them to conceal a more complex-shaped space in the three-dimensional hydrodynamic flow. With the derivation of transformation hydrodynamics, the coordinate transformations for each hydrodynamic cloaking are demonstrated with the calculated viscosity tensors. The pressure and velocity fields of the square, triangular (carpet), and exemplary three-dimensional house-shaped cloaks are numerically simulated, thus showing a cloaking effect and reduced drag. This study suggests an efficient way of cloaking complex architectures from fluid-dynamic forces.     

Elastodynamic behavior of mechanical cloaks designed by direct lattice transformations

Steering waves in elastic solids is more demanding than steering waves in electromagnetism or acoustics. As a result, designing material distributions which are the counterpart of optical invisibility cloaks in elasticity poses a major challenge. Waves of all polarizations should be guided around an obstacle to emerge on the downstream side as though no obstacle were there. Recently, we have introduced the direct-lattice-transformation approach. This simple and explicit construction procedure led to extremely good cloaking results in the static case. Here, we transfer this approach to the dynamic case, i.e., to elastic waves or phonons. We demonstrate broadband reduction of scattering, with best suppressions exceeding a factor of five when using cubic coordinate transformations instead of linear ones. To reliably and quantitatively test these cloaks efficiency, we use an effective-medium approach.     

Numerical analysis of three-dimensional acoustic cloaks and carpets

We start by a review of the chronology of mathematical results on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map which paved the way toward the physics of transformational acoustics. We then rederive the expression for the (anisotropic) density and bulk modulus appearing in the pressure wave equation written in the transformed coordinates. A spherical acoustic cloak consisting of an alternation of homogeneous isotropic concentric layers is further proposed based on the effective medium theory. This cloak is characterized by a low reflection and good efficiency over a large bandwidth for both near and far fields, which approximates the ideal cloak with an inhomogeneous and anisotropic distribution of material parameters. The latter suffers from singular material parameters on its inner surface. This singularity depends upon the sharpness of corners, if the cloak has an irregular boundary, e.g. a polyhedron cloak becomes more and more singular when the number of vertices increases if it is star shaped. We thus analyze the acoustic response of a non-singular spherical cloak designed by blowing up a small ball instead of a point, as proposed in [Kohn, Shen, Vogelius, Weinstein, Inverse Problems 24, 015016, 2008]. The multilayered approximation of this cloak requires less extreme densities (especially for the lowest bound). Finally, we investigate another type of non-singular cloaks, known as invisibility carpets [Li and Pendry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203901, 2008], which mimic the reflection by a flat ground.     

Acoustic cloaking: Geometric transform,homogenization and a genetic algorithm

A general process is proposed to experimentally design anisotropic inhomogeneous metamaterials obtained through a change of coordinates in the Helmholtz equation. The method is applied to the case of a cylindrical transformation that allows cloaking to be performed. To approximate such complex metamaterials we apply results of the theory of homogenization and combine them with a genetic algorithm. To illustrate the power of our approach, we design three types of cloaks composed of isotropic concentric layers structured with three types of perforations: curved rectangles, split rings and crosses. These cloaks have parameters compatible with existing technology and they mimic the behavior of the transformed material. Numerical simulations have been performed to qualitatively and quantitatively study the cloaking efficiency of these metamaterials.     

Full Range Scattering Estimates and Their Application to Cloaking

We establish very precise estimates for the time harmonic scattering effects of an inhomogeneity. Our estimates are valid at all frequencies, and are independent of the contents of the inhomogeneity. The involved constants are independent of the frequency. We use these estimates to assess the effectivity of approximate electromagnetic cloaks constructed by so called “mapping techniques”.     

An experimental investigation of interaction of sprays with acoustic fields

This paper presents the effect of axial acoustic fields on an air-atomized spray. In these experiments, a spray of ethanol is established in a transparent test section in which an acoustic field is set up using acoustic drivers. Visual observation shows that a high-amplitude acoustic field (160 dB) reduces the length of the spray. The spray velocity field was characterized by particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements. The spray velocities are considerably reduced in the presence of the acoustic oscillations, indicating the presence of smaller droplets. The presence of acoustic oscillations increases the spray cone angle. The flow field in the near field of the spray was characterized. There is considerable entrainment of air into the spray in the presence of acoustic oscillations. It is seen that the acoustic velocity rather than the acoustic pressure primarily affects the spray.     

Axial acoustic radiation force on a rigid cylinder near an impedance boundary for on-axis Gaussian beam

This work presents a theoretical model to calculate the acoustic radiation force on a rigid cylindrical particle immersed in an ideal fluid near a boundary for an on-axis Gaussian beam. An exact solution of the axial acoustic radiation force function is derived for a cylindrical particle by applying the translation addition theorem of cylindrical Bessel function. We analyzed the effects of the impedance boundary on acoustic radiation force of a rigid cylinder immersed in water near an impedance boundary with particular emphasis on the radius of the rigid cylinder and the distance from the cylinder center to impedance boundary. Simulation results reveal that the existence of particle trapping behavior depends on the choice of nondimensional frequency as well as the offset distance from the impedance boundary. The value of the radiation force function varies when the cylinder lies at the different position of the on-axis Gaussian beam. For the particle with different radius, the acoustic radiation force functions vary significantly with frequency. This study provides a theoretical basis for acoustic manipulation, which may benefit to the improvement and development of the acoustic control technology.     

Acoustic radiation force of a solid elastic sphere immersed in a cylindrical cavity filled with ideal fluid

An expression for the acoustic radiation force function on a solid elastic spherical particle placed in an infinite rigid cylindrical cavity filled with an ideal fluid is deduced when the incident wave is a plane progressive wave propagated along the cylindrical axis. The acoustic radiation force of the spherical particle with different materials was computed to validate the theory. The simulation results demonstrate that the acoustic radiation force changes demonstrably because of the influence of the reflective acoustic wave from the cylindrical cavity. The sharp resonance peaks, which result from the resonance of the fluid-filled cylindrical cavity, appear at the same positions in the acoustic radiation force curve for the spherical particle with different radii and materials. Relative radius, which is the ratio of the sphere radius and the cylindrical cavity radius, has more influence on acoustic radiation force. Moreover, the negative radiation forces, which are opposite to the progressive directions of the plane wave, are observed at certain frequencies.     

A theory of sound transmission through a clamped curved piezoelectric membrane connected to a negative capacitor

An analytical calculation of the acoustic transmission loss of sound propagating through a thin cylindrically curved piezoelectric membrane, which is rigidly clamped at its straight ends, is presented. The membrane is placed inside an acoustic tube and connected to an active electric shunt circuit that behaves as a negative capacitor. A properly adjusted shunt circuit has a significant impact on the effective elastic stiffness of the piezoelectric membrane and, hence, influences the membrane acoustic reflectivity and transmission loss of sound. Such a setup represents a noise control system based on the principles of the active elasticity control of piezoelectric materials. The non-uniform radial motion of the clamped membrane and its interaction with the acoustic field and the electric shunt circuit are analyzed. The main objective of the calculations, which are based on Donnell’s theory, is the determination of the effects of the membrane clamps on the flexural motion of the membrane and, therefore, effects on the acoustic transmission loss of sound. Approximative formulae for the amplitude of the membrane displacement and the acoustic transmission loss of sound are expressed as well as the resonant frequencies of the uniform mode and flexural vibration modes.     

A novel design scheme for acoustic cloaking of complex shape based on region partitioning and multi-origin coordinate transformation

Acoustic cloaking is an important application of acoustic metamaterials. This article proposes a novel design scheme for acoustic cloaking based on the region partitioning and multi-origin coordinate transformation. The cloaked region is partitioned into multiple narrow strips. For each strip, a local coordinate system is established with the local origin located at the strip center, and a coordinate transformation in the local coordinate system is conducted to squeeze the material along the strip length direction to form the cloaked region. To facilitate the implementation of the acoustic cloak, the multilayer effective medium is used to approximate the non-uniform anisotropic material parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed coordinate transformation method is verified by comparing the results from our method with those in the literature. Firstly, the results of a circular acoustic cloak in the literature are reproduced by using our finite element (FE) simulations for validation. Then, a comparison is made between the traditional coordinate transformation scheme and our new scheme for simulating an elliptical acoustic cloak. The results indicate that the proposed multi-origin coordinate transformation method has a better cloaking effect on the incident wave along the ellipse minor axis direction than the traditional method. This means that for the same object, an appropriate transformation scheme can be selected for different incident wave directions to achieve the optimal control effect. The validated scheme is further used to design an arch-shaped cloak composed of an upper semicircular area and a lower rectangular area, by combining the traditional single-centered coordinate transformation method for the semicircular area and the proposed multi-origin method for the rectangular area. The results show that the designed cloak can effectively control the wave propagation with significantly reduced acoustic pressure level. This work provides a flexible acoustic cloak design method applicable for arbitrary shapes and different wave incident directions, enriching the theory of acoustic cloaking based on coordinate transformation.     

Variety of acoustic streaming in 2D resonant channels

Acoustic streaming in 2D resonant channels with uniform or non-uniform cross-sections is studied within this work. An inertial force as well as a vibrating boundary are assumed for driving the acoustic field. The method of successive approximations is employed to derive linear equations for calculation of primary acoustic and time-averaged secondary fields including the radiation pressure and the mass transport velocity. The model equations have a standard form which allows their numerical integration using a universal solver; in this case, COMSOL Multiphysics was employed. As this software is based on the finite element method, it is simple and straightforward to perform the calculations with moderate computational costs even for complex geometries, which makes the proposed approach an operative tool for study of acoustic streaming. The numerical results are validated for the case of a rectangular channel by comparison with previously published analytical results; an excellent agreement is found. The numerical results show that the acoustic streaming can be quite complex even in rectangular channels and its structure depends on the manner of driving. Examples of acoustic streaming in wedged and elliptical channels are given to demonstrate a strong dependence of the acoustic streaming structure on the resonator shape.     

VIBRATION AND ACOUSTIC RADIATION FROM SUBMERGED STIFFENED SPHERICAL SHELL WITH DECK-TYPE INTERNAL PLATE

Based on the motion differential equations of vibration and acoustic coupling system for thin elastic spherical shell with an elastic plate attached to its internal surface, in which Dirac-δ functions are employed to introduce the moments and forces applied by the attachment on the surface of shell, by means of expanding field quantities as Legendre series, a semi-analytic solution is derived for the vibration and acoustic radiation from a submerged stiffened spherical shell with a deck-type internal plate, which has a satisfactory computational effectiveness and precision for an arbitrary frequency range. It is easy to analyze the effect of the internal plate on the acoustic radiation field by using the formulas obtained by the method proposed. It is concluded that the internal plate can significantly change the mechanical and acoustic characteristics of shell, and give the coupling system a very rich resonance frequency spectrum. Moreover, the method can be used to study the acoustic radiation mechanism in similar structures as the one studied here.     

Pentamode material for underwater acoustic wave control

五模材料是一种具有固体特征的复杂流体,可通过超材料技术由固体材料经过微结构精心设计近似得到.可调的模量各向异性和固体特征赋予五模材料优越的水声调控能力,在降低水下物体目标强度等领域有着重要潜在应用,因此受到了国内外工程和学术界关注.本文就五模材料基本概念、微结构设计、声波调控、加工制备等方面对该类材料的研究进展进行详细介绍,并对五模材料在工程中应用存在的问题进行了讨论,以期为后续相关研究者提供参考.     

Q235钢细观损伤声发射源动态观测实验研究

金属材料细观损伤过程伴随有瞬态应力波的释放,利用声发射检测技术可采集到应力波的信息,但由于缺少直观可视的手段,利用声发射信息定量评价金属材料的细观损伤存在困难。本文将SEMtester1000原位拉伸试验机、MZ1000正置显微镜和PCI-2型声发射检测系统相结合,搭建了声发射源动态观测实验系统。以Q235钢可视化原位拉伸实验为例,获取了晶体的滑移和夹杂物的断裂两种典型声发射源图像及对应的声发射信号。通过对不同声发射源信号的分析可知,滑移是一个持续的过程,复杂的滑移活动会产生多类型的声发射信号。夹杂物断裂是瞬态过程,产生典型的突发型声发射信号,能量较滑移信号更高。依据声发射源动态观察结果及图像分析,建立了基于声发射机制的Q235钢细观损伤模型。     

阶梯圆柱形耦合声场的特征正交-里兹法建模及声学特性分析

针对阶梯圆柱形耦合声场建模问题,提出基于特征正交-里兹能量原理的声学建模方法.该方法利用二维特征正交多项式和周向傅里叶级数表征阶梯圆柱形耦合声场子分段的声压函数,从能量角度考虑邻近子声场间声学连续性条件,并结合里兹法获得耦合声场的声学特性.基于本建模方法对不同分段的耦合声场开展声学特性分析,结果表明,本建模方法在保证计算准确性的基础上有效提高了计算效率,且对任意阶梯分段的圆柱形耦合声场普遍适用;圆柱形耦合声场固有频率会随着腔体外径增大而普遍增大,而腔深的影响规律相反;降低声学边界阻抗可抑制声学响应幅值,为此类声场的噪声控制提供了设计依据.