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Carpet cloak for water waves
Zhenyu Wang1, Chunyang Li1, Razafizana Zatianina1
1College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Cloaking is a challenging topic in the field of wave motion, and is of significant theoretical value. In this article, a type of carpet cloak has been theoretically designed for water waves by using the effective medium and transformation theory. This carpet cloak device, created by a three-dimensional printer, is composed of a periodic structure which realizes the equivalent anisotropic water depth. We demonstrate its excellent cloaking performance numerically and experimentally in a wide range of frequencies and angles of incidence, with low wave attenuation characteristics and simple device realization of this carpet cloak illustrating that water wave transformation is a powerful method with which to manipulate water waves.
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