Metafluids beyond the Bulk Modulus.

Abstract

It is well known that the acoustic properties of fluid are characterized by mass density and bulk modulus. Metafluids, the fluid metamaterials, generalize the natural fluid, which can accommodate extreme and/or negative values of these two parameters. Here, we further show that the metafluids, composed of periodic thin-walled hollow cylinders immersed in fluid, can provide not only the designable effective mass density and bulk modulus, but also a completely new effective parameter, which appears in the wave velocities as a role similar to the shear modulus of solid. The new effective parameter, describing the response of the fluid to the quadrupolar component of waves, is obtained by generalizing the effective medium theory (EMT) to include the second-order effects, which is vanishing and neglected in the conventional EMT, but giant here in the metafluids with built-in quadrupolar resonances. With the discovery of the metafluids of shearlike moduli, our Letter extends the concept of metafluids and will have a great significance in the field of metamaterials.