Reduced-weight near-cloaks for underwater invisibility
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| author | Quadrelli, Davide Enrico Cominelli, Sebastiano Cazzulani, Gabriele Braghin, Francesco |
| author_facet | Quadrelli, Davide Enrico Cominelli, Sebastiano Cazzulani, Gabriele Braghin, Francesco |
| contents | Limiting the total weight of an acoustic cloak is of fundamental importance in underwater applications, where buoyancy of the cloaked object is desirable. Unfortunately, it is well known that traditional cloaking strategies imply either a mass tending to infinity or a total weight equal to the Archimedes' force, thus making a perfect cloak that preserves the buoyancy of the target impossible. In this paper, we discuss strategies to reduce the weight of the cloak seeking a good compromise between weight reduction and acoustic performance. In particular, we compare and combine two existing strategies: the so-called eikonal cloak, where an impedance mismatched cloak is adopted, and the near-cloak, where a non-singular transformation makes the target equivalent to a smaller obstacle. We show that properly combining these strategies allows to reduce the mass of the cloak while maintaining a scattering reduction in line with the existing literature. We also investigate radially varying mismatch as a way to further improve the balance between scattering reduction and buoyancy. |
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| spellingShingle | Reduced-weight near-cloaks for underwater invisibility Quadrelli, Davide Enrico Cominelli, Sebastiano Cazzulani, Gabriele Braghin, Francesco Applied Physics Limiting the total weight of an acoustic cloak is of fundamental importance in underwater applications, where buoyancy of the cloaked object is desirable. Unfortunately, it is well known that traditional cloaking strategies imply either a mass tending to infinity or a total weight equal to the Archimedes' force, thus making a perfect cloak that preserves the buoyancy of the target impossible. In this paper, we discuss strategies to reduce the weight of the cloak seeking a good compromise between weight reduction and acoustic performance. In particular, we compare and combine two existing strategies: the so-called eikonal cloak, where an impedance mismatched cloak is adopted, and the near-cloak, where a non-singular transformation makes the target equivalent to a smaller obstacle. We show that properly combining these strategies allows to reduce the mass of the cloak while maintaining a scattering reduction in line with the existing literature. We also investigate radially varying mismatch as a way to further improve the balance between scattering reduction and buoyancy. |
| title | Reduced-weight near-cloaks for underwater invisibility |
| topic | Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07593 |