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| author | Xu, Xinlin Kato, Junji |
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| contents | Phononic crystals enable precise manipulation of elastic wave propagation through engineered bandgaps; however, designing defect states within these bandgaps for frequency-selective applications remains a significant challenge. Existing design approaches, including prior optimization formulations, struggle to systematically resolve the competing objectives of attracting desired defect modes to target frequencies while simultaneously repelling unwanted modes from the bandgap region. This inability to suppress competing modes often results in spurious, undesired in-gap resonant modes, thereby limiting design purity. This paper presents a novel two-stage topology optimization framework that addresses this challenge through an innovative multi-objective formulation based on a selection function with Gaussian weighting. In the first stage, the unit cell topology is optimized to create a wide bandgap around a target frequency. In the second stage, a supercell containing a defect is optimized using a specially designed objective function that dynamically balances mode attraction and repulsion via a selection function $S(ω)$ with adaptive $σ$ parameters. This selection mechanism enables the optimizer to automatically identify and selectively attract the most suitable defect mode while repelling competing modes from the bandgap region, eliminating the need for manual mode tracking. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed framework successfully generates phononic crystals featuring engineered defect states that yield precisely positioned localized resonant modes at prescribed frequencies within wide bandgaps, with potential applications in frequency-selective filters and elastic wave manipulation devices. |
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| spellingShingle | Direct Dispersion-Curve Engineering of Phononic Crystal Defect Modes for Prescribed Frequencies via Topology Optimization Xu, Xinlin Kato, Junji Materials Science Numerical Analysis Computational Physics Phononic crystals enable precise manipulation of elastic wave propagation through engineered bandgaps; however, designing defect states within these bandgaps for frequency-selective applications remains a significant challenge. Existing design approaches, including prior optimization formulations, struggle to systematically resolve the competing objectives of attracting desired defect modes to target frequencies while simultaneously repelling unwanted modes from the bandgap region. This inability to suppress competing modes often results in spurious, undesired in-gap resonant modes, thereby limiting design purity. This paper presents a novel two-stage topology optimization framework that addresses this challenge through an innovative multi-objective formulation based on a selection function with Gaussian weighting. In the first stage, the unit cell topology is optimized to create a wide bandgap around a target frequency. In the second stage, a supercell containing a defect is optimized using a specially designed objective function that dynamically balances mode attraction and repulsion via a selection function $S(ω)$ with adaptive $σ$ parameters. This selection mechanism enables the optimizer to automatically identify and selectively attract the most suitable defect mode while repelling competing modes from the bandgap region, eliminating the need for manual mode tracking. Numerical examples demonstrate that the proposed framework successfully generates phononic crystals featuring engineered defect states that yield precisely positioned localized resonant modes at prescribed frequencies within wide bandgaps, with potential applications in frequency-selective filters and elastic wave manipulation devices. |
| title | Direct Dispersion-Curve Engineering of Phononic Crystal Defect Modes for Prescribed Frequencies via Topology Optimization |
| topic | Materials Science Numerical Analysis Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26435 |