Acoustic elliptical cylindrical cloaks

作者:Ma Hua*; Qu Shao Bo; Xu Zhuo; Wang Jia Fu
来源:Chinese Physics B, 2009, 18(3): 1123-1126.
DOI:10.1088/1674-1056/18/3/047

摘要

By making a comparison between the acoustic equations and the 2-dimensional (2D) Maxwell equations, we obtain the material parameter equations (MPE) for acoustic elliptical cylindrical cloaks. Both the theoretical results and the numerical results indicate that an elliptical cylindrical cloak can realize perfect acoustic invisibility when the spatial distributions of the mass density and bulk modulus are exactly configured according to the proposed equations. The present work is the meaningful exploration of the designing acoustic cloaks that are neither sphere nor circular cylinder in shape, and opens up possibilities for making complex and multiplex acoustic cloaks with simple models such as spheres, circular or elliptic cylinders.