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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Front. Mater.</journal-id>
<journal-title>Frontiers in Materials</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Front. Mater.</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="epub">2296-8016</issn>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">860126</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3389/fmats.2022.860126</article-id>
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<subject>Materials</subject>
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<subject>Original Research</subject>
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<article-title>Broadband Transformation Acoustic Waveguide With Anisotropic Density Based on Pentamode Metamaterials</article-title>
<alt-title alt-title-type="left-running-head">Chen et&#x20;al.</alt-title>
<alt-title alt-title-type="right-running-head">Anisotropic-Density Pentamode Acoustic Waveguide</alt-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Xing</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1">
<sup>&#x2020;</sup>
</xref>
<uri xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1641193/overview"/>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
<name>
<surname>Cai</surname>
<given-names>Li</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c001">&#x2a;</xref>
<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1">
<sup>&#x2020;</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
<name>
<surname>Wen</surname>
<given-names>Jihong</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c001">&#x2a;</xref>
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<aff id="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
<institution>Laboratory of Science and Technology on Integrated Logistics Support</institution>, <institution>National University of Defense Technology</institution>, <addr-line>Changsha</addr-line>, <country>China</country>
</aff>
<aff id="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
<institution>College of Intelligence Science</institution>, <institution>National University of Defense Technology</institution>, <addr-line>Changsha</addr-line>, <country>China</country>
</aff>
<author-notes>
<fn fn-type="edited-by">
<p>
<bold>Edited by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1267729/overview">Fuyin Ma</ext-link>, Xi&#x2019;an Jiaotong University, China</p>
</fn>
<fn fn-type="edited-by">
<p>
<bold>Reviewed by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1647599/overview">Yuzhen Yang</ext-link>, Institute of Acoustics (CAS), China</p>
<p>
<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1332204/overview">Yi Chen</ext-link>, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany</p>
</fn>
<corresp id="c001">&#x2a;Correspondence: Li Cai, <email>cailiyunnan@163.com</email>; Jihong Wen, <email>wenjihong_nudt1@vip.sina.com</email>
</corresp>
<fn fn-type="equal" id="fn1">
<label>
<sup>&#x2020;</sup>
</label>
<p>These authors have contributed equally to this&#x20;work</p>
</fn>
<fn fn-type="other">
<p>This article was submitted to Metamaterials, a section of the journal Frontiers in Materials</p>
</fn>
</author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>28</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="collection">
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>9</volume>
<elocation-id>860126</elocation-id>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>22</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>2022</year>
</date>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>07</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2022</year>
</date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#xa9; 2022 Chen, Cai and Wen.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Chen, Cai and Wen</copyright-holder>
<license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these&#x20;terms.</p>
</license>
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<abstract>
<p>Multiple layer anisotropic fluid medium is critical to the realization of transformation acoustic devices, such as cloak or bend waveguide. Pentamode metamaterials have attracted extensive attention as a solid artificial version with anisotropic modulus to approximate liquids. In this paper, we present an approach to realize fluid-like anisotropic density by using pentamode materials, and an underwater bend acoustic waveguide with anisotropic density is designed and fabricated to demonstrate the effectiveness of it. Simulation results indicate that, compared with anisotropic-modulus design by using pentamode materials, wider bandwidth acoustic modulation effect can be obtained. An in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms of the broadband characteristics is provided by calculating the band structure of the pentamode metamaterials constituting the acoustic waveguides and analyzing their vibration modes. Finally, remarkable wavefront manipulation for underwater acoustics based on the acoustic waveguide with anisotropic density is experimentally verified.</p>
</abstract>
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<kwd>transformation acoustics</kwd>
<kwd>anisotropic density</kwd>
<kwd>acoustic waveguide</kwd>
<kwd>pentamode metamaterials</kwd>
<kwd>underwater acoustics</kwd>
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<contract-num rid="cn001">11991032 51975575</contract-num>
<contract-sponsor id="cn001">National Natural Science Foundation of China<named-content content-type="fundref-id">10.13039/501100001809</named-content>
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<body>
<sec id="s1">
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>Acoustic metamaterials are artificial periodic structures with subwavelength scales that exhibit extraordinary acoustic properties (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Liu et&#x20;al., 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Norris, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Assouar et&#x20;al., 2018</xref>), such as negative mass density or modulus (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">Ding et&#x20;al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Huang et&#x20;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B19">Liu et&#x20;al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B32">Xu et&#x20;al., 2020</xref>), negative Poisson&#x2019;s ratio (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Burns, 1987</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">Bertoldi et&#x20;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B18">Li et&#x20;al., 2017</xref>), and anisotropic density or modulus (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">Torrent and S&#xe1;nchez-Dehesa, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B31">Wu et&#x20;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Kutsenko et&#x20;al., 2017</xref>). Transformation acoustics is one of the most important theoretical approaches applied to the design of acoustic metamaterials (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">Cummer et&#x20;al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Norris, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">Milton et&#x20;al., 2010</xref>), the basic idea of which is to regard an arbitrary propagation path of acoustic waves as the path generated by the linear propagation path after specific coordinate transformations, and then apply the specific coordinate transformation to the original spatial distribution of uniform material parameters. Finally, the spatial distribution of material parameters that realize the arbitrary propagation path of the acoustic waves can be obtained. Theoretically, transformation acoustics provides unprecedented flexibility for manipulating acoustic waves at will, and is therefore widely employed to design unconventional acoustic devices, such as acoustic cloaks (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">Cummer et&#x20;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Chen and Chan, 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">Chen et&#x20;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">Bi et&#x20;al., 2018</xref>), superlens (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B33">Zhu et&#x20;al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Jong et&#x20;al., 2015</xref>) and bend waveguides (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">Sun et&#x20;al., 2018</xref>).</p>
<p>Acoustic devices designed based on transformation acoustics generally contain material properties that are almost impossible for us to obtain in nature, such as sharp gradient changes, anisotropic modulus or anisotropic density, which greatly hinders the manufacture of such acoustic devices. Fortunately, the advent of the pentamode material allows the density and modulus of the material to be flexibly adjusted within a certain range, which latently provides an access to physical realization of such acoustic devices (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Layman et&#x20;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B27">Sun et&#x20;al., 2019</xref>). With this method, pentamode acoustic cloaks are designed using fluid-like pentamode microstructures with anisotropic modulus (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B25">Scandrett et&#x20;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Chen et&#x20;al., 2015</xref>). Due to the large gap between their actual material parameters and theoretical values, these cloaks can achieve acoustic stealth effect only at some frequencies and are not able to meet broadband requirements. Moreover, the geometric configurations of pentamode microstructures with anisotropic modulus tend to be complex, which also brings many difficulties to the design and application of acoustic devices with anisotropic modulus. Since both the mass density and modulus of a medium affect the dynamics of acoustic wave propagation, directing acoustic waves to propagate in a curved path can be achieved not only by materials with anisotropic modulus, but also by materials with anisotropic density. Research works on anisotropic-modulus metamaterials using pentamode metamaterials is more common, however, the study of anisotropic-density metamaterials based on pentamode metamaterials and the comparative studies of the two anisotropic metamaterials are less explored (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">Torrent and S&#xe1;nchez-Dehesa, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">Shu et&#x20;al., 2011</xref>).</p>
<p>In this letter, we introduced pentamode metamaterials to the design of an anisotropic-density acoustic waveguide for underwater acoustics. The acoustic waveguide consists of a four-layer arched isotropic and homogeneous pentamode metamaterials, in which acoustic waves can be directed to precisely and efficiently propagate along a curved path in the frequency band from 20 to 40&#xa0;kHz. Simultaneously, a waveguide with anisotropic modulus is designed and the comparative studies show that anisotropic-density waveguides can achieve precise and efficient manipulation of acoustic waves in a wider frequency range. Finally, an acoustic waveguide with anisotropic-density is fabricated and the experiment is conducted to verify the effectiveness of this waveguide for manipulating underwater acoustic&#x20;waves.</p>
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<sec id="s2">
<title>Design and Performances of Acoustic Waveguides</title>
<sec id="s2-1">
<title>Design of Acoustic Waveguides Using Pentamode Metamaterials</title>
<p>The cellular structure in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1A</xref> is one typical pentamode metamaterial (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Norris, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Norris and Nagy, 2011</xref>), which contains five independent geometric dimensions (<italic>&#x3b8;</italic>, <italic>&#x3be;</italic> &#x3d; <italic>h</italic>/<italic>l</italic>, <italic>&#x3b7;</italic> &#x3d; <italic>t</italic>/<italic>l</italic>, <italic>l</italic>
<sub>a</sub> &#x3d; <italic>l</italic>
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<sub>a</sub> &#x3d; <italic>h</italic>
<sub>1</sub>/<italic>l</italic>). Theoretically, we can obtain the&#x20;cellular structure with required equivalent materials parameters by directly optimizing these independent geometric parameters. However, solving the five independent parameters with multivariate optimization algorithms is extremely time-consuming, which cannot be widely used. While, the cellular structure exhibits isotropic modulus when <italic>&#x3be;</italic> &#x3d; 1 and <italic>&#x3b8;</italic> &#x3d; 30&#xb0; (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">Gibson and Ashby, 1982</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Fu and Yin, 1999</xref>), which offers us an&#x20;approach to accurately and rapidly obtaining isotropic and homogeneous fluid-like materials with desired density and modulus by optimizing three independent geometric parameters (<italic>&#x3b7;</italic>, <italic>h</italic>
<sub>a</sub> and&#x20;<italic>l</italic>
<sub>a</sub>).</p>
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<label>FIGURE 1</label>
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</inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="inf9">
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<mml:msup>
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</mml:msup>
<mml:mi>&#x3b1;</mml:mi>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> are the modulus of the anisotropic-modulus waveguide in the <italic>r</italic> direction and <italic>&#x3b1;</italic> direction, respectively. <inline-formula id="inf10">
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<mml:msup>
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<p>According to <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="e2">Eq. 2</xref>, since the difference in material parameters between the inner and outer layers of the waveguide is not significant, to simplify the design and facilitate the physical realization of the waveguide, the anisotropic-density acoustic waveguide with continuously varying material parameters is discretized into two layers of gradient materials I and II, which are equivalent with homogeneous materials of equal thickness (A, B, C and D), respectively. The equivalent parameters of this multilayer homogeneous materials are expressed as (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">Torrent and Sanchez-Dehesa, 2010</xref>):<disp-formula id="e4">
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</mml:math>
<label>(4)</label>
</disp-formula>Where <inline-formula id="inf11">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>A</mml:mi>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> and <inline-formula id="inf12">
<mml:math id="m16">
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>B</mml:mi>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> are the mass densities of two homogeneous materials, respectively. <italic>K</italic>
<sub>
<italic>A</italic>
</sub> and <italic>K</italic>
<sub>
<italic>B</italic>
</sub> are the modulus of two homogeneous materials, respectively. The acoustic waveguides are composed of aluminum (density <inline-formula id="inf13">
<mml:math id="m17">
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mtext>Al</mml:mtext>
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</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 2,700&#xa0;kg/m<sup>3</sup>, Young&#x2019;s modulus <italic>E</italic>
<sub>Al</sub> &#x3d; 69&#xa0;GPa, and Poisson&#x2019;s ratio <inline-formula id="inf14">
<mml:math id="m18">
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c5;</mml:mi>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mtext>Al</mml:mtext>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 0.33) and permeated by air. Combining <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="e2">Eqs 2</xref>, <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="e4">4</xref>, the material parameters of these four homogeneous materials can be obtained as: <inline-formula id="inf15">
<mml:math id="m19">
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mtext>A</mml:mtext>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 1,250&#xa0;kg/m<sup>3</sup>, <italic>K</italic>
<sub>A</sub> &#x3d; 2.25&#xa0;GPa, <inline-formula id="inf16">
<mml:math id="m20">
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mtext>B</mml:mtext>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 460&#xa0;kg/m<sup>3</sup>, <italic>K</italic>
<sub>B</sub> &#x3d; 2.25&#xa0;GPa, <inline-formula id="inf17">
<mml:math id="m21">
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mtext>C</mml:mtext>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 1,250&#xa0;kg/m<sup>3</sup>, <italic>K</italic>
<sub>C</sub> &#x3d; 2.25&#xa0;GPa, <inline-formula id="inf18">
<mml:math id="m22">
<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mtext>D</mml:mtext>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 260&#xa0;kg/m<sup>3</sup>, <italic>K</italic>
<sub>D</sub> &#x3d; 2.25&#xa0;GPa.</p>
<p>Taking the material parameters of A, B, C, and D as optimization targets respectively, the multi-variable optimization algorithm is applied to numerically solving the three independent geometric parameters of the isotropic pentamode cellular structures. The geometric parameters of the four cellular structures are shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table&#x20;1</xref>. Finally, these four kinds of pentamode cellular structures are utilized to construct the anisotropic-density waveguide in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1C</xref>.</p>
<table-wrap id="T1" position="float">
<label>TABLE 1</label>
<caption>
<p>Geometric parameters of pentamode cellular structures for the anisotropic-density acoustic waveguide and the anisotropic-modulus acoustic waveguide.</p>
</caption>
<table>
<thead valign="top">
<tr>
<th align="left">No.</th>
<th align="center">
<italic>&#x3b8;</italic> (degree)</th>
<th align="center">
<italic>t</italic> (mm)</th>
<th align="center">
<italic>l</italic> (mm)</th>
<th align="center">
<italic>h</italic> (mm)</th>
<th align="center">
<italic>l</italic>
<sub>1</sub> (mm)</th>
<th align="center">
<italic>h</italic>
<sub>1</sub> (mm)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr>
<td align="left">A</td>
<td rowspan="4" align="center">30</td>
<td rowspan="4" align="char" char=".">0.30</td>
<td rowspan="4" align="char" char=".">3.5</td>
<td rowspan="4" align="char" char=".">3.5</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.50</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.50</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left">B</td>
<td align="char" char=".">0.70</td>
<td align="char" char=".">0.70</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">C</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.50</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.50</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">D</td>
<td align="char" char=".">0</td>
<td align="char" char=".">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">E</td>
<td align="center">25</td>
<td align="char" char=".">0.24</td>
<td align="char" char=".">3.5</td>
<td align="char" char=".">5.5</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.44</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.27</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left">F</td>
<td align="center">30</td>
<td align="char" char=".">0.20</td>
<td align="char" char=".">3.2</td>
<td align="char" char=".">5.5</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.58</td>
<td align="char" char=".">1.40</td>
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</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
<p>Similarly, the anisotropic-modulus waveguide with continuously varying material parameters is discretized into two layers, which are composed of pentamode cellular structures (E and F) with anisotropic modulus, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1D</xref>. The material parameters of E and F are obtained from <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="e3">Eq. 3</xref> as: <inline-formula id="inf19">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>K</mml:mi>
<mml:mrow>
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<mml:mtext>E</mml:mtext>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 2.25&#xa0;GPa, <inline-formula id="inf20">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>K</mml:mi>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>&#x3b1;</mml:mi>
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mtext>E</mml:mtext>
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</inline-formula> &#x3d; 1,000&#xa0;kg/m<sup>3</sup> and <inline-formula id="inf22">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>K</mml:mi>
<mml:mrow>
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</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
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</inline-formula> &#x3d; 2.25&#xa0;GPa, <inline-formula id="inf23">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>K</mml:mi>
<mml:mrow>
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</mml:mrow>
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</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula> &#x3d; 3.24&#xa0;GPa, <inline-formula id="inf24">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>&#x3c1;</mml:mi>
<mml:mtext>F</mml:mtext>
</mml:msub>
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</inline-formula> &#x3d; 1,000&#xa0;kg/m<sup>3</sup>, and the geometric parameters of the cellular structure E and F are shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table&#x20;1</xref>. Moreover, anisotropic-density/modulus acoustic waveguides that can guide the acoustic waves to deflect 50&#xb0; for propagation are designed, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1E</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure&#x20;1F</xref>, respectively.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2-2">
<title>Performances of Waveguides for Manipulating Acoustic Waves</title>
<p>To test the effectiveness of these acoustic waveguides on manipulating underwater acoustic waves, we employed a full-band numerical simulation (COMSOL Multiphysics) by launching horizontal plane waves towards the structures at the frequency range from 20 to 40&#xa0;kHz. The average sound pressure over a line segment with a length of 100&#xa0;mm, immediately adjacent to the incident or outgoing end of the waveguide and parallel to the cross-section of the waveguide at the incident or outgoing end is denoted as <inline-formula id="inf25">
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</mml:mrow>
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</inline-formula> or <inline-formula id="inf26">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mrow>
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<mml:mi>x</mml:mi>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msub>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
</inline-formula>, and the transmission coefficient of the waveguide is defined as:<disp-formula id="e5">
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<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>T</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>&#x3d;</mml:mo>
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</mml:mrow>
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</mml:mrow>
</mml:math>
<label>(5)</label>
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</p>
<p>Transmission coefficients of these four acoustic waveguides are respectively calculated in the corresponding frequency band, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure&#x20;2E</xref>.</p>
<fig id="F2" position="float">
<label>FIGURE 2</label>
<caption>
<p>Full-band pressure maps and the transmission efficiencies of the four acoustic waveguides. <bold>(A)</bold> Anisotropic-density acoustic waveguide with the deflection angle of 25&#xb0;. <bold>(B)</bold> Anisotropic-modulus acoustic waveguide with the deflection angle of 25&#xb0;. <bold>(C)</bold> Anisotropic-density acoustic waveguide with the deflection angle of 50&#xb0;. <bold>(D)</bold> Anisotropic-modulus acoustic waveguide with the deflection angle of 50&#xb0;. <bold>(E)</bold> Transmission efficiencies.</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fmats-09-860126-g002.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>The pressure field distributions in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure&#x20;2A</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure&#x20;2C</xref> show that the anisotropic-density acoustic waveguides with different deflection angles can guide the underwater acoustic waves to deflect and propagate along the curved path according to the designed angles, and the wave fronts are neatly arranged. Moreover, there are no obvious scattered waves at the boundaries of the anisotropic-density acoustic waveguides. However, acoustic waves at 40&#xa0;kHz in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure&#x20;2B</xref> fail to propagate as designed, and there is significant scattering at the boundary of the anisotropic-modulus waveguide with the deflection angle of 25&#xb0;. In addition, the pressure field distribution in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure&#x20;2D</xref> also shows that only a small amount of acoustic wave is transmitted at 40&#xa0;kHz. It can be seen from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F2">Figure&#x20;2E</xref> that the two anisotropic-density waveguides maintain high transmission efficiency in the frequency range of 20&#x2013;40&#xa0;kHz, with an average transmission coefficient above 0.8. However, the two anisotropic-modulus waveguides are not as good as the former ones in the frequency band of 30&#x2013;40&#xa0;Hz, and the transmission rate in the high frequency band of 36&#x2013;40&#xa0;kHz drops seriously. These results indicate that waveguides with anisotropy density can accurately and efficiently manipulate underwater acoustic waves in full-band, while the waveguides with anisotropic modulus can hardly manipulate underwater acoustic waves in high frequencies.</p>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec id="s3">
<title>Analysis of the Mechanisms for Broadband Characteristics</title>
<p>In order to investigate the mechanisms underlying the differences between the anisotropic-density waveguides and the anisotropic-modulus waveguides in manipulating acoustic waves, we separately calculate the dispersion curves of the six pentamode cellular structures constituting these waveguides. The structure with anisotropy density composed of cellular structure A and B is recorded as microstructure A &#x2b; B, and the structure with anisotropy density composed of cellular structure C and D is recorded as microstructure C &#x2b; D, and the dispersion curves of them are simultaneously calculated.</p>
<p>
<italic>&#x393;</italic>-<italic>&#x39d;</italic> represents the incident direction of underwater acoustic waves into the waveguide. It can be found from the dispersion curves in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Figure&#x20;3</xref> that in the frequency band from 20 to 40&#xa0;kHz, there is only one type of the wave propagation mode in all the isotropic and homogeneous cellular structures (A, B, C, and D), as well as the microstructures (A &#x2b; B and C &#x2b; D) with anisotropic density composed of isotropic and homogeneous cellular structures. However, the dispersion curves in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Figure&#x20;3F</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F3">Figure&#x20;3H</xref> show that the cellular structures with anisotropic modulus (E and F) contain three or four different types of wave propagation mode in the <italic>&#x393;</italic>-<italic>&#x39d;</italic> direction from 20 to 40&#xa0;kHz, respectively. The above analysis indicates that the manipulation effect of acoustic waveguide on acoustic waves is closely related to the wave propagation modes present in the waveguide.</p>
<fig id="F3" position="float">
<label>FIGURE 3</label>
<caption>
<p>Cellular structures and the frequency dispersion curves. <bold>(A)</bold> Cellular structure A. <bold>(B)</bold> Cellular structure B. <bold>(C)</bold> Cellular structure C. <bold>(D)</bold> Cellular structure D. <bold>(E)</bold> Microstructure A &#x2b; B. <bold>(F)</bold> Microstructure C &#x2b; D. <bold>(G)</bold> Cellular structure E. <bold>(H)</bold> Cellular structure F.</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fmats-09-860126-g003.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>To further explore the specific propagation modes of acoustic waves in the above waveguides, the specific vibration modes of the above cellular structures are analyzed in the frequency range of 20&#x2013;40&#xa0;Hz. As shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F4">Figure&#x20;4</xref>, isotropic and homogeneous cellular structures (A, B, C, and D) and the microstructures (A &#x2b; B and C &#x2b; D) with anisotropic density have only translation parallel to the wave vector direction, which indicates the characteristics of longitudinal wave. However, the cellular structures (E and F) with anisotropic modulus not only have translation parallel to the wave vector direction, but also have complex bending and torsional deformation and displacement perpendicular to the wave vector direction, which shows that the propagation of longitudinal waves, transverse waves and their coupling simultaneously exists in the cellular structures with anisotropic modulus. Compared with the cellular structures with anisotropic modulus, only longitudinal wave exists in the cellular structures with anisotropic density, and the propagation modes of waves in cellular structures with anisotropic density is more single, which makes its mechanical properties more similar to fluid-like materials, allowing anisotropic-density waveguides to manipulate acoustic waves precisely and efficiently in full band. However, the higher the frequency, the more complex the wave propagation modes in the anisotropic-density waveguides tends to be, which is inconsistent with fluid-like design, resulting in the poorer control effect of the anisotropic-modulus waveguide on high-frequency underwater acoustic&#x20;waves.</p>
<fig id="F4" position="float">
<label>FIGURE 4</label>
<caption>
<p>The vibration mode of the above-mentioned cellular structures in the range of 20&#x2013;40&#xa0;kHz. <bold>(A)</bold> Cellular structure A. <bold>(B)</bold> Cellular structure B. <bold>(C)</bold> Cellular structure C. <bold>(D)</bold> Cellular structure D. <bold>(E)</bold> Microstructure A &#x2b; B. <bold>(F)</bold> Cellular structure E. <bold>(G)</bold> Microstructure C &#x2b; D. <bold>(H)</bold> Cellular structure F.</p>
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<title>Experiments on the Acoustic Waveguide With Anisotropy Density</title>
<p>Considering the difficulties of the process for manufacturing such acoustic waveguides consisting of complex pentamode microstructures, we only fabricated the anisotropy-density waveguide with deflection angle of 25&#xb0; for the validation experiments, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5A</xref>. In order to verify the effectiveness of the experimental sample on manipulating underwater acoustic waves, a set of 2D underwater acoustic waveguide experimental device in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5B</xref> is introduced to conduct the experiments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Chen and Hu, 2019</xref>), which is mainly composed of two parallel aluminum plates, and the acoustic waves generated by the underwater acoustic transducer can be approximately regarded as plane waves. To avoid the interference of the acoustic waves propagating from the acoustic waveguide and the external plane waves, a device with a rectangular aperture is designed to limit the width of incident waves, which consists of plexiglass plates, and the space surrounded by plexiglass plate is filled with air. Due to the narrow operating frequency bandwidth of the underwater acoustic transducer used in the experiments, the test is performed at the center frequency (20&#xa0;kHz) of the transducer to ensure the accuracy of the experimental results. Transient experiments are conducted to make the experiments more efficient while avoiding the influence of reflected acoustic waves on the measurements, and the results of the experiments are shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5E</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5F</xref>.</p>
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<bold>(A)</bold> The experimental sample of the acoustic waveguide with anisotropy density and a thickness of 50&#xa0;mm. <bold>(B)</bold> 2D underwater acoustic waveguide experimental device. The length, width and thickness of two parallel aluminum plates are 1000, 800 and 10&#xa0;mm, respectively, and the distance between the two plates is 50&#xa0;mm. The part enclosed by the black dotted line is the acoustic field scanning area, its length and width are 600 and 200&#xa0;mm respectively, and its geometric center is 280&#xa0;mm away from the bottom of the sample. <bold>(C)</bold> Pressure map of the free space simulated at 20&#xa0;kHz. <bold>(D)</bold> Pressure map of the acoustic waveguide with anisotropy density simulated at 20&#xa0;kHz. <bold>(E)</bold> Measured pressure of the free space at 20&#xa0;kHz. <bold>(F)</bold> Measured pressure of the anisotropy-density acoustic waveguide at 20&#xa0;kHz.</p>
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<p>By comparing the measured pressure maps with simulated pressure maps in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F5">Figure&#x20;5</xref>, it can be clearly seen that the acoustic waves propagate along the curved path as designed, and the wavefront remains neat after passing through the waveguide structure. In addition, there are no significant scattered waves around the propagation path of the acoustic waves, which experimentally verifies that this acoustic waveguide structure with anisotropic density can achieve precise and effective manipulation of underwater acoustics&#x20;waves.</p>
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<title>Conclusion</title>
<p>In summary, a broadband anisotropic-density transformation acoustic realization approach is present based on pentamode metamaterials. As an example, an acoustic waveguide with anisotropic density for underwater acoustics is designed and fabricated. Compared with the anisotropic-modulus acoustic waveguide, the acoustic waveguide with anisotropic density can achieve precise and efficient modulation of underwater acoustics over a wider frequency band. The analysis shows that only a single longitudinal wave propagation mode exists in the pentamode materials constituting the anisotropic-density waveguides, thus making the anisotropic-density waveguides more similar to a fluid-like materials, which is the mechanisms for the broadband characteristics of the waveguides with anisotropic density. Finally, the effectiveness of the anisotropic-density waveguide for manipulating underwater acoustics is experimentally verified. The research work in this study offers unprecedented flexibility for realizing fluid-like and anisotropic-density metamaterials with ultra-broadband characteristics, which provides potential applications for underwater acoustics manipulation.</p>
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<title>Funding</title>
<p>This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos 11991032, 51975575).</p>
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