Ray stability for background sound speed profiles with transition

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2953-2964

  Bódai, Tamás ^a   Fenwick, Alan J ^a   Wiercigroch, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Launching basin; Ray chaos; Stability; Transition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DUCTS; LAUNCHING; LYAPUNOV METHODS; STABILITY;

GRADUAL TRANSITION; MAXIMAL LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; NON-LINEARITY PARAMETER; RAY CHAOS; SOUND PROPAGATION; SOUND SPEED PROFILES; STRUCTURE CONTROL; TRANSITION;

ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 73149115785     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127409024578     Document Type: Article

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