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Potential Of Hydrodynamic Metamaterial Cloak For Drag Reduction, Rong Zou
Potential Of Hydrodynamic Metamaterial Cloak For Drag Reduction, Rong Zou
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Metamaterials are rationally designed artificial materials composed of tailored functional building blocks densely packed into an effective material. While metamaterials historically are primarily thought to be associated with negative index of refraction and invisibility cloaking in electromagnetism or optics, it turns out that the simple metamaterial concept also applies to many other areas of physics namely the thermodynamics, classical mechanics including elastostatics, acoustics, fluid dynamics and elastodynamics, and in principle also to the quantum mechanics. The goal of this thesis is to introduce and evaluate the potential of a hydrodynamic metamaterial cloak for drag reduction of objects in viscous flow. …