Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
2. SJTU Yazhou Bay Institute of Deepsea Sci-Tech, Sanya 572000, China
Abstract
Due to fluid viscosity, marine vehicles and structures immersed in fluids are inevitably affected by various fluid resistances. To obtain an effective method to eliminate drag and achieve hydrodynamic invisibility, we propose an innovative theory, called arbitrary space transformation (AST) theory, to design hydrodynamic cloaks. This AST theory provides a strategy that enables spatial transformation between different coordinate systems, compressing arbitrary geometric space into a shell-shaped space, thereby realizing the hydrodynamic concealment and excellent drag reduction effect of arbitrary shaped target objects. The flow manipulation cloak shows outstanding performance for eliminating drag and cloaking aquatic and submerged objects under different inflow conditions. In addition, it can reduce the risk of erosion and blockage that cloaked arbitrary shaped objects or organs may encounter by shifting the angles between the inflow and the frontal surface of structures. This investigation enables a powerful means of fluid design, which will make it possible for complex geometries to be undetectable by an external observer and remain hidden in an environment filled with fluid forces.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanics of Materials,Computational Mechanics,Mechanical Engineering
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