Active cloaking of resonant coated inclusions for waves in membranes and Kirchhoff plates

TL;DR

This paper develops an active cloaking method for coated inclusions in membranes and plates, effective across multiple frequency regimes, including resonant frequencies, using analytic expressions for source amplitudes.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive active cloaking design with explicit formulas for different frequency ranges, extending previous monopole-based approaches to resonant scenarios.

Findings

Active cloaking is effective at resonant frequencies.

Closed-form expressions for active source amplitudes are derived.

Numerical results confirm the cloaking performance.

Abstract

The dynamic response of a coated inclusion is considered in the context of active cloaking. The active cloak is achieved for a coated inclusion in the presence of membrane and flexural waves. In this paper, we investigate the design of an active cloak for a coated inclusion in three frequency regimes: the very low frequency (monopole dominated) range, the intermediate range, and the higher frequency range in which scattering resonances occur. In the first of these ranges, we validate previous work, which resulted in a simple mass-compensation design for the monopole scatterer, while in the second and third ranges, a combination of the use of an appropriate coating and the appropriate choice of the amplitudes of the active cloaking sources is necessary. We show that such cloaking can indeed be effective in the region of strong scattering resonances. We give closed form analytic expressions for the required amplitudes of the active cloaking sources in the three frequency regions and provide asymptotic estimates and numerical illustrations.