anisotropic

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The material parameters are anisotropic, and singular at the interface between the cloaked and uncloaked regions, making physical realization a challenge.

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  1. adjective Not isotropic.
  2. adjective Physics Having properties that differ according to the direction of measurement.

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  • A constitutive model for the anisotropic elastic-plastic deformation of paper and paperboard —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The team designed the anti-cloak as an anisotropic negative refractive shell that is impedance-matched to the cloak outside, which has a positive refractive index. —  optics.org all content
  • The paper covers many previously resolved theoretical and technical issues and new problems that are more specific to clinical diffusion imaging, such as the calculation of diffusion effects in the presence of multiple magnetic field gradient pulses, the elimination of motion artifacts, and the meaning of anisotropic or restricted diffusion in relation to tissue microdynamics and microstructure. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It is shown that the most general class of acoustic metafluids are materials with anisotropic inertia and the elastic properties of what are known as pentamode materials. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The material parameters are anisotropic, and singular at the interface between the cloaked and uncloaked regions, making physical realization a challenge. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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