Attenuation in suspensions of irregularly shaped sediment particles: A two-parameter equivalent spherical scatterer model

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1485-1502

  Schaafsma, Arjen S ^a   Hay, Alex E ^b  

^a WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ATTENUATION; PARTICLE SHAPE; SONAR DETECTION; SOUND ATTENUATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030759867     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420063     Document Type: Article

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