Transformation-based cloaking for flexural–gravity waves in an anisotropic plate floating on shallow water

Abstract

The principle of cloaking has been developed and applied to different types of waves. We consider the application in the context of flexural–gravity waves on shallow water in order to reduce the wave force on an object. The parameters of the plate used to create a cloak in the vicinity of the object are found applying a space transformation method to the wave-propagation equation. The governing equation of a Kirchhoff–Love plate is generally not shape-invariant, which traditionally induces error terms in the (thus approximate) use of the space transformation method. First deriving the equations of motion for the shallow-water–fully anisotropic plate system by a variational principle, we exte..