Application of the method of asymptotic homogenization to an acoustic metafluid

Abstract

The method of asymptotic homogenization is used to find the dynamic effective properties of a metamaterial consisting of two alternating layers of fluid, repeating periodically. As well as the effective wave equation, the method gives the effective equation of motion and constitutive relation in a natural way. When the material properties are such that resonant effects can be present in one of the layers, it is found that the metamaterial changes dynamically from a metafluid with anisotropic density and isotropic stiffness at low frequency to one with anisotropic stiffness when the frequency is near to one of the local resonances. In this region of frequency, the resulting metamaterial is not a pentamode material and thus does not belong to the class of metafluids that can be transformed to an isotropic fluid by a coordinate transformation.