Acoustic plane-wave scattering from a rough interface over an inhomogeneous transition fluid layer

Acoustic scattering of a plane wave incident upon a rough surface over a transition fluid layer within which both the density and sound speed vary with depth is considered. A theory based upon a boundary perturbation method has been applied to a typical seabed environment to study the power spectral density representing the energy distribution of the scattered field over the space. The effects of frequency and roughness properties, including the roughness height, spatial correlation, and power spectrum, on the power spectral density have been investigated. The results demonstrate that the power spectral density of the scattered field depends upon all the aforementioned parameters, particularly the correlation length and the power spectrum of the rough surface, a conclusion in distinct contrast to the results for the coherent field obtained in an earlier study. It was found that the constituents of the rough surface such as the correlation length and wavenumber spectrum dominate the angular distribution of the scattered energy. These results indicate that it is crucial to employ a suitable topological model in the study of rough seabed scattering.     

深海超短基线声学定位系统计算目标水平距离的一种新方法

对深海环境中工作的潜器或设备载体进行定位测量是深海调查的重要任务之一，本文基于射线声学原理对超基线声学定位系统的定位数据提出了一种迭代处理算法，能够得到非常精确的水平距离测量结果，这种方法对于大洋调查的深拖系统和其他下水设备定位有重要的现实意义。     

渤海海冰微波散射特性研究

Microwave remote sensing has become the primary means for sea-ice research, and has been supported by a great deal of field experiments and theoretical studies regarding sea-ice microwave scattering. However, these studies have been barely carried in the Bohai Sea. The sea-ice microwave scattering mechanism was first developed for the thin sea ice with slight roughness in the Bohai Sea in the winter of 2012, and included the backscattering coefficients which were measured on the different conditions of three bands(L, C and X), two polarizations(HH and VV), and incident angles of 20° to 60°, using a ground-based scatterometer and the synchronous physical parameters of the sea-ice temperature, density, thickness, salinity, and so on. The theoretical model of the sea-ice electromagnetic scattering is obtained based on these physical parameters. The research regarding the sea-ice microwave scattering mechanism is carried out through two means, which includes the comparison between the field microwave scattering data and the simulation results of the theoretical model, as well as the feature analysis of the four components of the sea-ice electromagnetic scattering. It is revealed that the sea-ice microwave scattering data and the theoretical simulation results vary in the same trend with the incident angles. Also, there is a visible variant in the sensitivity of every component to the different bands.For example, the C and X bands are sensitive to the top surface, the X band is sensitive to the scatterers, and the L and C bands are sensitive to the bottom surface, and so on. It is suggested that the features of the sea-ice surfaces and scatterers can be retrieved by the further research in the future. This experiment can provide an experimental and theoretical foundation for research regarding the sea-ice microwave scattering characteristics in the Bohai Sea.     

Acoustic resonance scattering by large-aspect-ratio solid targets

The transition-matrix (T-matrix) approach to acoustic scattering is used to investigate scattering by high-aspect-ratio solid elastic targets. Results for several different materials are presented over aKL/2range of 0.5-16.0 for targets with aspect ratios from 1 to 10. It is demonstrated that the phase velocity of the Rayleigh resonances on solid spheroids is closely related to the shear speed of the material. In addition, high-Qresonant peaks are shown to dominate the backscattered response for many high-aspect-ratio targets.     

Acoustic scattering by an air-bubble near the sea surface

If the air bubble is near, and strongly interacting, with the (flat) surface of a liquid half-space, then the scattering cross section (SCS) of the bubble differs substantially from its value far-away from the interface. We present the exact solution for this scattering problem which is valid for any incidence direction of the (plane) sound waves, and for any bubble depth, obtained by the general method of images. The bubble is described as a continuous, spatially extended body, having an infinity of modes and resonances. The interaction with the boundary, or the image, is treated by a general, extended continuum approach. This benchmark solution makes use of the addition theorems for the spherical wavefunctions. The resulting SCS contains contributions from the bubble, its image, the incident wave, and the reflected wave from the boundary. It is expressed in terms of coupling coefficients, b_mn, which contain products of Wigner-3j symbols. The formulation is illustrated with many computed plots for bubbles at various depths, and the results compare favorably with earlier experimental observations. The approach also serves to describe scattering by fish near the sea surface, in an exact fashion     

Oblique wave scattering by submerged thin wall with gap in finite-depth water

The problem of oblique wave scattering by a submerged thin vertical wall with a gap in finite-depth water and its modification when another identical wall is introduced, are investigated in this paper. The techniques of both one-term and multiterm Galerkin approximations have been utilized in the mathematical analysis. The multi-term approximations in terms of appropriate Chebyshev polynomials provide extremely accurate numerical estimates for the reflection coefficient. The reflection coefficient is depicted graphically for a number of geometries. It is found that by the introduction of another identical wall, there occurs zero reflection for certain wave numbers. This may have some bearings on the modelling of a breakwater.     

子波在水声信道多分辨率均衡方法中的应用

本文在确定了水声信道的数学描述后，提出了在信道自适应过程中，可以应用子波对信号进行多分辨率分解，逐尺度地对信道进行均衡，这样，不但减少了运算数据量，也减少了均衡所需的权系数个数，计算机仿真结果令人满意。