A spectral approach to 3-D object scattering in layered media applied to scattering from submerged spheres

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2105-2113

  Makris, Nicholas C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATTENUATION; CALCULATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

LAYERED MEDIA; OBJECT SCATTERING; PARABOLIC EQUATION; SUBMERGED SPHERES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; DISPERSION; GEOMETRY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032188816     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423724     Document Type: Article

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