Customizable wave tailoring nonlinear materials enabled by bilevel inverse design.

ABSTRACT: Passive wave transformation via nonlinearity is ubiquitous in settings from acoustics to optics and electromagnetics. It is well known that different nonlinearities yield different effects on propagating signals, which raises the question of "what precise nonlinearity is the best for a given wave tailoring application?" In this work, considering a one-dimensional spring-mass chain connected by polynomial springs (a variant of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou system), we introduce a bilevel inverse design method which couples the shape optimization of structures for tailored constitutive responses with reduced-order nonlinear dynamical inverse design. We apply it to two qualitatively distinct problems-minimization of peak transmitted kinetic energy from impact, and pulse shape transformation-de

SUBMITTER: MacNider B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11986126 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature