Variability of the water column sound speed profile and its effect on acoustic propagation during the Shallow Water 2006 Experiment.

2008 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 2443-2443
Author(s):  
Megan S. Ballard ◽  
Kyle M. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Water Column ◽  
Sound Speed ◽  
Acoustic Propagation ◽  
Speed Profile ◽  
Sound Speed Profile

An Efficient Coupled-Mode Formulation for Acoustic Propagation in Inhomogeneous Waveguides

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550019
Author(s):  
Chunmei Yang ◽  
Wenyu Luo ◽  
Renhe Zhang ◽  
Liangang Lyu ◽  
Fangli Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Water Column ◽  
Sound Speed ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Acoustic Propagation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Speed Profile ◽  
Benchmark Problem ◽  
Sound Speed Profile ◽  
Coupled Mode ◽  
Sloping Bottom

The direct-global-matrix coupled-mode model (DGMCM) for sound propagation in range-dependent waveguides was recently developed by Luo et al. [A numerically stable coupled-mode formulation for acoustic propagation in range-dependent waveguides, Sci. China G: Phys. Mech. Astron. 55 (2012) 572–588]. A brief review of the formulation and characteristics of this model is given. This paper extends this model to deal with realistic problems involving an inhomogeneous water column and a penetrable sloping bottom. To this end, the normal mode model KRAKEN is adopted to provide local modal solutions and their associated coupling matrices. As a result, the extended DGMCM model is capable of providing full two-way solutions to two-dimensional (2D) realistic problems with a depth- and range-dependent sound speed profile as well as a penetrable sloping bottom. To validate this model, it is first applied to a benchmark problem of sound propagation in a plane-parallel waveguide with a depth- and range-dependent sound speed profile, and then it is applied to a problem involving both an inhomogeneous water column and a sloping bottom. Comparisons with the analytical solution proposed by DeSanto and with the numerical model COUPLE are also provided, which show that the extended DGMCM model is accurate and efficient and hence can serve as a benchmark for realistic problems of sound propagation in an inhomogeneous waveguide.

Sound speed profile inversion using a horizontal line array in shallow water

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZhengLin Li ◽  
Li He ◽  
RenHe Zhang ◽  
FengHua Li ◽  
YanXin Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sound Speed ◽  
Horizontal Line ◽  
Speed Profile ◽  
Sound Speed Profile ◽  
Line Array ◽  
Profile Inversion

Comparison of Sound Propagation Characteristic between Deep and Shallow Water

2014 ◽  
Vol 577 ◽  
pp. 1198-1201
Author(s):  
Zhang Liang ◽  
Chun Xia Meng ◽  
Hai Tao Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Sound Speed ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Spherical Wave ◽  
Sound Field ◽  
Propagation Loss ◽  
Speed Profile ◽  
Sound Speed Profile ◽  
Propagation Law

The physical characteristics are compared between shallow and deep water, in physics and acoustics, respectively. There is a specific sound speed profile in deep water, which is different from which in shallow water, resulting in different sound propagation law between them. In this paper, the sound field distributions are simulated under respective typical sound speed profile. The color figures of sound intensity are obtained, in which the horizontal ordinate is distance, and the vertical ordinate is depth. Then we can get some important characteristics of sound propagation. The results show that the seabed boundary is an important influence on sound propagation in shallow water, and sound propagation loss in deep water convergent zone is visibly less than which in spherical wave spreading. We can realize the remote probing using the acoustic phenomenon.

scholarly journals A Volunteer Computing Project for Solving Geoacoustic Inversion Problems

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 363-370
Author(s):  
Oleg Zaikin ◽  
Pavel Petrov ◽  
Mikhail Posypkin ◽  
Vadim Bulavintsev ◽  
Ilya Kurochkin
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Problems ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sound Speed ◽  
Underwater Acoustics ◽  
Volunteer Computing ◽  
Speed Profile ◽  
Geoacoustic Inversion ◽  
Sound Speed Profile ◽  
Profile Reconstruction ◽  
Discretization Grid

AbstractA volunteer computing project aimed at solving computationally hard inverse problems in underwater acoustics is described. This project was used to study the possibilities of the sound speed profile reconstruction in a shallow-water waveguide using a dispersion-based geoacoustic inversion scheme. The computational capabilities provided by the project allowed us to investigate the accuracy of the inversion for different mesh sizes of the sound speed profile discretization grid. This problem suits well for volunteer computing because it can be easily decomposed into independent simpler subproblems.

Simulation for Range Prediction of Active Sonar in Shallow Water

2013 ◽  
Vol 385-386 ◽  
pp. 514-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Chun Xia Meng ◽  
Jian Na
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sound Speed ◽  
Sound Absorption ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Propagation Characteristic ◽  
Water Medium ◽  
Speed Profile ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Sound Speed Profile ◽  
Active Sonar

In shallow water the acoustic wave from ambient noise sources carries a large number of environment information based on the complicated reflection both on the surface and seabed interface. The sound speed profile is one of the influencing factors of sound propagation characteristic, while for a long distance the sound absorption coefficient of water medium has an important significance to propagation range. The simulation results show that in shallow water sound absorption of seabed, sound speed profile and sound absorption of water were taken into account, then range prediction of active sonar can be exactly obtained using normal-mode propagation.

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