Publications by Sami Driss Karkar

Broadband Nonreciprocal Acoustic Propagation Using Programmable Boundary Conditions: From Analytical Modeling to Experimental Implementation

Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar, Gaël Matten

We theoretically, numerically and experimentally demonstrate the acoustic isolator effect in a one-dimensional waveguide with direction-dependent controlled boundary conditions. A theoretical model is used to explain the principle of nonreciprocal propagat ...

American Physical Society (APS)2019

Multi-degree-of-freedom low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers through coupled resonators

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

Electroacoustic absorbers represent an interesting solution for low-frequency sound absorption in rooms. These systems simply consist of closed-box electrodynamic loudspeakers, whose acoustic impedance at the diaphragm is judiciously adjusted by connecting ...

Elsevier2018

On the Optimisation of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Acoustic Impedances of Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers for Room Modal Equalisation

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

Low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers have recently been developed as a solution for the modal equalisation. Firstly investigated in waveguides, the technique consists in matching the acoustic impedance at a closed-box loudspeaker diaphragm to the charac ...

2017

Design and experimental validation of an active acoustic liner for aircraft engine noise reduction

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet, Sami Driss Karkar, Gaël Matten

The use of acoustic liners in aviation industry is a quite common solution for reducing the engines acoustic emissions. Although the current solutions based on single or multilayer liners are efficient and compact for the mid and high frequencies, noise mi ...

2017

Broadband Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Hybrid Sensor-/Shunt-Based Impedance Control

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

This paper proposes a hybrid impedance control architecture for an electroacoustic absorber, that combines an improved microphone-based feedforward control with a currentdriven electrodynamic loudspeaker system. Feedforward control architecture enables sta ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Development of Leaky-Wave Antenna Applications with Acoustics Metamaterials: from the Acoustic Dispersive Prism to Sound Direction Finding with a Single Microphone

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani, Sami Driss Karkar

Recent studies have focused on developing metamaterials for acoustic applications, inspired by electromagnetics concepts. The acoustic leaky-wave antenna is amongst the most investigated. Despite the unfavourable properties of conventional matter and struc ...

IEEE2017

Design of active Multiple-degrees-of-freedom electroacoustic resonators for use as broadband sound absorbers

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

We present a novel control method achieving stable multiple-degrees-of-freedom electroacoustic resonators. Such broadband absorbers, composed of a feedback-controlled electrodynamic loudspeaker, have many practical applications to real-world acoustic engin ...

2017

Acoustic energy harvesting using electrochemical double layor capacitors: Technical feasibility and performance assessment

Mario Paolone, Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Dimitri Torregrossa, Sami Driss Karkar

This paper describes a first prototype harvesting the acoustic energy using electrochemical storage devices. In particular, the harvesting system is composed by an Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC) suitably coupled with an electroacoustic abso ...

IEEE2016

Exploiting the leaky-wave properties of transmission-line metamaterials for single-microphone direction finding

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

A transmission-line acoustic metamaterial is an engineered, periodic arrangement of relatively small unit-cells, the acoustic properties of which can be manipulated to achieve anomalous physical behaviours. These exotic properties open the door to practica ...

2016

Acoustic carpet cloak based on an ultrathin metasurface

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

An acoustic metasurface carpet cloak based on membrane-capped cavities is proposed and investigated numerically. This design has been chosen for allowing ultrathin geometries, although adapted to airborne sound frequencies in the range of 1 kHz (λ≈30 cm), ...

Amer Physical Soc2016