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Mathematical Simulation of Cloaking Metamaterial Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

Jichun Li  and
Yunqing Huang
Jichun Li*
Affiliation:
Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4020, USA
Yunqing Huang*
Affiliation:
Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
*
Corresponding author. URL: http://faculty.unlv.edu/jichun/, Email: jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
Email: huangyq@xtu.edu.cn
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Abstract

In this paper we present a rigorous derivation of the material parameters for both the cylinder and rectangle cloaking structures. Numerical results using these material parameters are presented to demonstrate the cloaking effect.

Keywords

78M1065N3035L15Maxwell’s equationsmetamaterialfinite element methodcloaking structures
Type
Research Article
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Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 2012 , pp. 93 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Global-Science Press 2012

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