Subcritical penetration of acoustic waves into inhomogenous seafloors

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-53

  Peng, Linhui ^a   Yu, Gaokun ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVELENGTH; EVANESCENT WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENERALIZED MODELS; GRAZING ANGLES; PENETRATION RATIO; SCATTERED WAVES; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOORS; SOUND SCATTERING; TWO-LAYERED MEDIA; VOLUME FLUCTUATIONS; VOLUME SCATTERING;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; INCOHERENT SCATTERING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 84855964617     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3664095     Document Type: Article

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