A new software package developed by researchers at Macquarie University can accurately model the way waves -- sound, water or light -- are scattered when they meet complex configurations of particles.
This will vastly improve the ability to rapidly design metamaterials -- exciting artificial materials used to amplify, block or deflect waves.
The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A on 19 June 2024, demonstrated the use of TMATSOLVER -- a multipole-based tool that models interactions between waves and particles of various shapes and properties.
The TMATSOLVER software makes it very easy to simulate arrangements of up to several hundred scatterers, even when they have complex shapes.
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