Reflection of underwater sound from surface waves
A tank experiment has been conducted to measure reflection of underwater sound from surface waves. Reflection from a wave crest leads to focusing and caustics and results in rapid variation in the received waveform as the surface wave moves. Theoretical results from wavefront modeling show that inte...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2009, Vol.125 (1), p.66-72 |
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Zusammenfassung: | A tank experiment has been conducted to measure reflection of underwater sound from surface waves. Reflection from a wave crest leads to focusing and caustics and results in rapid variation in the received waveform as the surface wave moves. Theoretical results from wavefront modeling show that interference of three surface reflected eigenrays for each wave crest produces complicated interference waveforms. There is good agreement between theory and experiment even on the shadow side of caustics where there are two surface reflected arrivals but only one eigenray. |
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ISSN: | 0001-4966 1520-8524 |
DOI: | 10.1121/1.3035828 |