Design and Reconfiguration of Multicomponent Hydrodynamic Manipulation Devices with Arbitrary Complex Structures

Abstract

Being a powerful strategy to preclude drag and achieve hydrodynamic invisibility, flow field manipulation is attracting widespread attention. In this investigation, we introduce a systematic set of arbitrary-space divide-and-conquer transformation strategies to design complex hydrodynamic cloaks. This theory removes the difficulties associated with the analytic description of complicated and irregular structures to construct hydrodynamic cloaks by adopting the divide-and-conquer algorithm and reconfiguring strategies. It also provides an approach for redistributing the flow field energy and guiding the fluid flow as desired. The proposed theory not only opens up new ideas for improving the speed and concealment of marine vehicles but also provides a new strategy for ensuring the safety of aquatic and underwater structure operations.

Keywords

• fluid drag-free space
• arbitrary space transformation
• divide-and-conquer strategy
• hydrodynamic invisibility
• anisotropic and inhomogeneous materials