Cloaks for underwater applications designed for actual submarine acoustic stealth are still far from the technological advancement needed for being put in practice. Several challenges need to be overcome such as dealing with weight or non-axisymmetric shapes. In this paper, we introduce the use of elliptical coordinates to define quasi-symmetric transformations to retrieve the material properties of pentamode cloaks for elliptical shaped targets, along with a quantifiable approximation introduced by the rotation tensor being different from the identity. This is done analytically adopting transformation theory, in an attempt to generalize the usual approach for axisymmetric cloaks, with the aim of dealing with shapes closer to those of the actual cross section of a submarine. With respect to existing techniques for dealing with arbitrarily shaped pentamode cloaks, the introduced technique allows for a priori control on the principal directions of anisotropy and for enlarged design space in terms of possible combinations of material property distributions for the same geometry of the problem.

Acoustic scattering reduction of elliptical targets via pentamode near-cloaking based on transformation acoustics in elliptic coordinates

Quadrelli D. E.;Cazzulani G.;Braghin F.
2021-01-01

Abstract

Cloaks for underwater applications designed for actual submarine acoustic stealth are still far from the technological advancement needed for being put in practice. Several challenges need to be overcome such as dealing with weight or non-axisymmetric shapes. In this paper, we introduce the use of elliptical coordinates to define quasi-symmetric transformations to retrieve the material properties of pentamode cloaks for elliptical shaped targets, along with a quantifiable approximation introduced by the rotation tensor being different from the identity. This is done analytically adopting transformation theory, in an attempt to generalize the usual approach for axisymmetric cloaks, with the aim of dealing with shapes closer to those of the actual cross section of a submarine. With respect to existing techniques for dealing with arbitrarily shaped pentamode cloaks, the introduced technique allows for a priori control on the principal directions of anisotropy and for enlarged design space in terms of possible combinations of material property distributions for the same geometry of the problem.
2021
Cloaking
Elliptical shape
Transformation acoustics
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