Dispersive Effective Metasurface Model for Bubbly Media

TL;DR

This paper develops a dispersive effective model for bubbly media, deriving a transmission condition that captures the acoustic behavior of resonant bubble clusters with various resonance regimes, applicable to complex geometries.

Contribution

It introduces a novel dispersive transmission condition for bubbly media with non-periodic, curved configurations, extending previous models to include memory effects and different resonance regimes.

Findings

High resonance: surface is fully transparent.

Moderate resonance: surface exhibits dispersive memory effects.

Low resonance: surface acts as a partial reflector or transmitter.

Abstract

We derive the effective transmission condition for a cluster of acoustic subwavelength resonators, modeled as small-scaled bubbles distributed not necessarily periodically along a smooth, bounded hypersurface, which need not be flat. The transmission condition specifies that the jump in the normal derivative of the acoustic field is proportional to its second time derivative, convoluted in time with a sinusoidal kernel. This kernel has a period determined by the common subwavelength resonance (specifically, the Minnaert resonance in this case). This dispersive transmission condition can also be interpreted as a Dirac-like surface potential that is convoluted in the time domain and spatially supported on the specified hypersurface. We highlight the following features: 1. High resonance regime: When the common resonance is large, the surface behaves as fully transparent, permitting complete transmission of the acoustic field. 2. Moderate resonance regime: For moderate resonance values, the surface acts as a screen with memory effects, capturing the dispersive behavior induced by the resonance. 3. Low resonance regime: When the common resonance is small, the surface functions as a partial reflective (or partial transmissive) screen with no memory effect.