Invisibility has recently been achieved in optics, electromagnetics, acoustics, thermotics, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics; it was realized through a properly designed cloak structure with unconventional (anisotropic, inhomogeneous, and singular) material parameters, which limit practical applications. Here, we show, directly from the solution of Laplace's equation, that two or more conventional (isotropic, homogeneous, and nonsingular) materials can be made thermally invisible by tailoring the many-particle local-field effects. Our many-particle thermal invisibility essentially serves as a new class of invisibility with a mechanism fundamentally differing from that of the prevailing cloaking-type invisibility. We confirm it in simulation and experiment. As an application, the concept of many-particle thermal invisibility helps us propose a class of many-particle thermal diodes: the diodes allow heat conduction from one direction with invisibility, but prohibit the heat conduction from the inverse direction with visibility. This work reveals a different mechanism for thermal camouflage and thermal rectification by using composites, and it also suggests that besides thermotics, many-particle local-field effects can be a convenient and effective mechanism for achieving similar controls in other fields, e.g., optics, electromagnetics, acoustics, and fluid mechanics.
Issue Section:
Heat and Mass Transfer
Topics:
Particulate matter
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