Measurements and inversion of acoustic scattering from suspensions having broad size distributions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2905-2917

  Moate, Benjamin D ^a   Thorne, Peter D ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; BACK-SCATTERED; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; BROAD SIZE DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENT SIZES; FORM FUNCTION; GAUSSIANS; INTRINSIC SCATTERING; INVERSION RESULTS; LOG-NORMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEAN SIZE; MULTI FREQUENCY; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TOTAL SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTICS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUARTZ; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ERROR; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOUND; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENSION; VALIDITY;

EID: 72549117031     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3242374     Document Type: Article

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