Numerical investigation of out-of-plane sound propagation in a shallow water experiment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Sturm, Frédéric ^a   Ivansson, Sven ^b   Jiang, Yong Min ^c   Chapman, N Ross ^c  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND PULSE; CENTER FREQUENCIES; HORIZONTAL REFRACTIONS; HYDROPHONE ARRAYS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OUT OF PLANES; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; RAY MODELS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SHALLOW WATERS; SLOPING BOTTOMS; SOUND PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; FLORIDA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADAR; SEAWATER; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60049083291     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3008068     Document Type: Article

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