Wave Scattering from Statistically Rough Surfaces
Wave Scattering from Statistically Rough Surfaces

Author: F. G. Bass

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1483187756

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Wave Scattering from Statistically Rough Surfaces discusses the complications in radio physics and hydro-acoustics in relation to wave transmission under settings seen in nature. Some of the topics that are covered include radar and sonar, the effect of variations in topographic relief or ocean waves on the transmission of radio and sound waves, the reproduction of radio waves from the lower layers of the ionosphere, and the oscillations of signals within the earth-ionosphere waveguide. The book begins with some fundamental idea of wave transmission theory and the theory of random processes as used to rough surfaces and to wave fields. This discussion is followed by an analysis of the average fields of sound and electromagnetic waves. A section on spatial correlation characteristics in the approximation of small perturbations is then given. Another chapter of the text explains the Kirchhoff method. The book will provide useful information to physicists, mechanical engineer, students, and researchers in the field of acoustics.

Rough Surface Acoustic Scattering and Scattering of Acoustic Waves from Rough Surfaces
Rough Surface Acoustic Scattering and Scattering of Acoustic Waves from Rough Surfaces

Author: Susan K. Numrich

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13:

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Measurements have been made of sound scattered in the specular direction by fixed rough surfaces. The surfaces used were physical realizations of computer generated topographies which corresponded to Gaussian distributions in height to within specified limits. Measurements were made in water using 0.5-, 1.0-, and 2.25-MHz transducers. Transient pulse analysis techniques were used to provide information about the scattered pulse over a wide range of frequencies. Comparisons are made with several theoretical models including a multiple scattering model. The scattered field is also illustrated by means of schlieren visualization. (Author).

Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography
Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography

Author: Herman Medwin

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 1997-11-05

Total Pages: 739

ISBN-13: 0080532160

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The developments in the field of ocean acoustics over recent years make this book an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields. Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography also encourages a new generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to apply the modern methods of acoustical physics to probe the unknown sea. The book is an authoritative, modern text with examples and exercises. It contains techniques to solve the direct problems, solutions of inverse problems, and an extensive bibliography from the earliest use of sound in the sea to present references.Written by internationally recognized scientists, the book provides background to measure ocean parameters and processes, find life and objects in the sea, communicate underwater, and survey the boundaries of the sea. Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography explains principles of underwater sound propagation, and describes how both actively probing sonars and passively listening hydrophones can reveal what the eye cannot see over vast ranges of the turbid ocean. This book demonstrates how to use acoustical remote sensing, variations in sound transmission, in situ acoustical measurements, and computer and laboratory models to identify the physical and biological parameters and processes in the sea.* Offers an integrated, modern approach to passive and active underwater acoustics* Contains many examples of laboratory scale models of ocean-acoustic environments, as well as descriptions of experiments at sea* Covers remote sensing of marine life and the seafloor* Includes signal processing of ocean sounds, physical and biological noises at sea, and inversions* resents sound sources, receivers, and calibration* Explains high intensities; explosive waves, parametric sources, cavitation, shock waves, and streaming* Covers microbubbles from breaking waves, rainfall, dispersion, and attenuation* Describes sound propagation along ray paths and caustics* Presents sound transmissions and normal mode methods in ocean waveguides