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Negative refraction of water waves by hyperbolic metamaterials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2023

Leo-Paul Euvé*
Affiliation:
PMMH, ESPCI, Sorbonne Université, Université PSL, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Kim Pham*
Affiliation:
IMSIA, CNRS, EDF, CEA, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Bd des Maréchaux, 91732 Palaiseau, France
Agnès Maurel*
Affiliation:
ESPCI Paris, Institut Langevin, PSL University, CNRS, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
*

Abstract

We study the propagation of water waves in a three-dimensional device alternating open canals and resonant canals with subwavelength resonances. The dispersion of water waves in such a medium is obtained by analysing the full three-dimensional problem and combining Bloch–Floquet analysis with an asymptotic technique. We obtain the closed forms of the dispersions for resonant canals containing one or two resonators, which depend on only two functions associated with symmetric and antisymmetric modes, and on a geometric parameter analogous to the hopping parameter in topological systems. The analysis of the complete band structure reveals frequency ranges alternating between elliptical and hyperbolic dispersions; in particular, the hyperbolic regime gives rise to a negative effective water depth with a consequent negative refraction. Throughout the course of our study, our theoretical results are validated by comparison with numerical calculations of the full three-dimensional problem.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press
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Figure 1. Conceptual view of arrays alternating open canals and resonant canals. (a) Single-resonant canals contain one resonator along $y$. (b) The irreducible Brillouin zone with ${\boldsymbol \kappa }=(\kappa _x,\kappa _y)$ the Bloch–Floquet wavenumber. (c) Doubly-resonant canals contain two resonators along $y$.

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Figure 2. (a) Potential flow problem through a pierced wall between two semi-infinite domains (microscopic scale). The horizontal section shows the potential $\psi ({\boldsymbol r}_{\mu })$ calculated numerically for a hole with unit section (red and blue indicate the maximum and minimum values of $\psi$, respectively). (b) Unit cell at the mesoscopic scale for the single-resonant canals. The potentials are constant within each domain (open canal and resonant cavity), and the Bloch–Floquet condition applies between adjacent cells.

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Figure 3. Unit cells (highlighted regions) used to derive the effective propagation (a) for the single-resonant canals and (b) for the doubly-resonant canals.

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Figure 4. Geometry of the three-dimensional unit cell used to compute numerically the dispersion and the Bloch–Floquet modes, and boundary conditions used in the calculations (see main text), with $\ell _y=\ell _c+\ell +2e$ and $\ell _x=\ell _c+e$.

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Figure 5. Dispersion along the principal directions of the Brillouin zone for the single-resonant canal. The grey symbols are from the direct numerics, and the solid lines are from (1.1) with (3.13a,b). Along $X'\varGamma$, the two branches are associated with S modes; along $YM$, the blue branch is associated with S modes ($\varphi =0$), the green branch with A modes ($\varphi _1=0$). In (b), the insets show the patterns in the unit cell centred on the resonator. Because of the degeneracy at $Y$ for $\gamma =1$, the gap along $\varGamma Y$ at $\gamma =0.5$ closes at $\gamma =1$, and re-opens at $\gamma =2$.

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Figure 6. Dispersion along the principal directions of the Brillouin zone for the doubly-resonant canal. Same representation as in figure 5. A new branch appears (green stars) associated with the pole of $\chi _a$ and one of its two zeros, associated with A modes along $X'\varGamma$ and $YM'$. Because of the degeneracies at $\varGamma$ and $Y$, the gaps at $\gamma =0.5$ close at $\gamma =1$ and re-open at $\gamma =2$.

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Figure 7. Full band structures of (a) a single-resonant canal and (b) a doubly-resonant canal. The white lines show the isofrequency contours, and the coloured lines show the dispersion in the pass-bands along $\varGamma Y$ (red lines), $YM'$ (blue lines) and $X\varGamma$ (green lines). As $\varOmega$ increases, the structures have a dispersion alternating elliptical and hyperbolic isofrequency contours, and end up above the last pass-bands of $\varGamma X$ with a dispersion similar to that of non-resonant closed cavities.

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Figure 8. Directional emission of a point source through a single-resonant canal (top plots) and corresponding dispersion from the Fourier transform of the fields; the theoretical isofrequency contours, from (1.1) along with (3.13a,b), are shown with dashed black lines (bottom plots). Values of $\varOmega$ used are (a) 0.62, (b) 1.12, (c) 1.61, (d) 1.92, and (e) 2.05.

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Figure 9. Same representation as in figure 8 for doubly-resonant canals (the theoretical isofrequency contours are obtained from (1.1) along with (4.4a,b)). (a–j) Values of $\varOmega$ used are 0.50, 0.80, 1.24, 1.55, 1.61, 1.74, 1.86, 2.00, 2.05 and 2.24, respectively.

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Figure 10. (a) Negative refraction in a slab $0< x< L$ made of resonant canals; the regions $x<0$ and $x>L$ corresponds to constant water-depth regions with water-depth $h_0=h$. The white arrows show the wavevectors inside and outside the slab, and the dashed red lines show the direction of the Poynting vectors. Wavevectors (white arrows) and Poynting vectors (red arrows) (b) outside and (c) inside the slab.

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Figure 11. (a) Geometry and mesh of the computational domain to solve the microscopic problem on $f({\boldsymbol r}_{\mu })$. (b) Geometry and mesh of the computational domain to solve the eigenvalue problem (B5) on $\Phi _{per}({\boldsymbol r})$ (band diagram).

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Figure 12. (a) Blockage coefficient $b$ of a infinite wall pierced by a square hole with unitary cross-section and normalized length $e/\sqrt {s}$ (solid blue line); a good estimate is given by $b=b_0+e/\sqrt {s}$, $b_0=0.91$, (dashed black line). (b) Variation of $b-e/\sqrt {s}$, revealing a small shift with respect to the law $b=b_0+e/\sqrt {s}$ for vanishing $e$.

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Figure 13. (a) The case of arrays of inclined plates studied in Porter (2021) and Porter & Marangos (2022). (b) Isofrequencycontour at constant $\omega$ (where $\kappa _0=\omega /\sqrt {gh}$).

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Figure 14. Correction of the band diagrams accounting for a dependence of the potential on $z$, (E1): (a) for single-resonant canals, to be compared with figure 4, and (b) for doubly-resonant canals, to be compared with figure 6. The inset in (a) for $\gamma =2$ shows the deviation of $k$ satisfying (??) with respect to the shallow-water prediction $k=\omega /\sqrt {gh}$.