Arbitrary Shaped Acoustic Concentrators Enabled by Nihility Media

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel acoustic concentrator design using a single homogeneous anisotropic material called acoustic nihility media, simplifying fabrication and enabling arbitrary shape concentration without complex calculations.

Contribution

The paper proposes a new transformation acoustics method utilizing acoustic nihility media, allowing arbitrary shape concentrators with a single, shape-independent material.

Findings

Enables arbitrary shape acoustic concentrators with a single material

Simplifies design process by avoiding complex calculations

Material properties are independent of device shape

Abstract

Based on the transformation acoustics (TA) methodology, an innovative approach for designing arbitrary shape concentrators is proposed. unlike previous works, which utilized inhomogenous and anisotropic materials to localize the incident waves in an arbitrary domain, the same functionality will be attained by introducing only one homogenous anisotropic medium, which is called acoustic nihility media (ANM). A great advantage of this method is that the attained materials are not dependent on the shape of the concentrator. That is regardless of the device geometry, a constant ANM will be used for each new shape and the output results do not alter. This will circumvent the conventional transformation acoustics' sophisticated and tedious calculations and could be easily implemented in real life scenarios.