Robust time reversal focusing in the ocean

Recent time-reversal experiments with high-frequency transmissions (3.5 kHz) show that stable focusing is severely limited by the time-dependent ocean environments. The vertical focal structure displays dynamic variations associated with focal splitting and remerging resulting in large changes in focal intensity. Numerical simulations verify that the intensity variation is linked to the focal shift induced by phase changes in acoustic waves resulting from sound speed fluctuations due to internal waves. A relationship between focal range shift, frequency shift, or channel depth changes is illustrated using waveguide-invariant theory. Based on the analysis of experimental data and numerical simulations, methods for robust time-reversal focusing are developed to extend the period of stable focusing.     

Acoustic characteristics of composite materials as acoustic window at oblique incidence of sound waves

This paper described a method for estimating the acoustic characteristics of composite materials at oblique incidence of sound waves. Composite materials are used as acoustic windows of SONAR to protect the internal sensors and electronic parts from water. In this study the composite material of glass reinforced plastic and polyurethane was used as the specimen. As the acoustic characteristics the velocities and attenuation coefficients of sound waves through the composite material were measured in the high frequency range. The insertion loss was also measured as a function of incident angle at 200 and 76 kHz, respectively. The attenuation coefficients in the low frequency range were estimated by interpolating the measured attenuation in the high frequency range with power-law form fitting. A four-medium layer model was proposed to estimate the insertion loss of composite materials at oblique incidence of sound waves in the low frequency range. The four-medium layer model well described the experimentally measured insertion loss at the high frequency range. It suggests that the insertion loss of the composite materials can be well estimated as a function of incident angle in the low frequency range.     

液体中激光等离子体声波特性研究

采用压电陶瓷水听器对液体中激光等离子体声波进行了实验研究.利用小波变换对不同激光能量、不同作用金属物质、不同激光波长下检测的声波信号进行了频谱特性分析.结果表明:液体中激光等离子体声波的频率分布范围为0~150 kHz,激光能量、金属物质与激光波长的改变对声波频率范围并没有太大的影响|小波分解后,低频a6级信号的能量占总能量的绝大部分,所占比例随着金属离化能的增加而减少|信号的主要频率成分为0~10 kHz,集中在a6级,峰值频率为5 kHz.     

南海北部浅海声场起伏及统计特性

水下声场的时间积分声强和峰值声强是声呐检测中的重要物理量,而海洋中的内波等动力学过程会造成声场强度的起伏。对南海北部浅海内波环境下定点声起伏实验数据分析,结合数值仿真,总结了试验海域近海底发射和近海底接收条件下内波引起接收信号强度起伏的统计特性.分析结果表明:接收信号的时间积分声强起伏小于峰值声强起伏;时间积分声强与峰值声强起伏的概率分布与对数正态分布较为接近.时间积分声强和峰值声强起伏大小与信号的频率有关,同一收发距离,中心频率650 Hz信号的声强起伏较中心频率310 Hz和375 Hz信号的声强起伏更为剧烈。对于同一频率,当海底较平坦时,声强起伏的闪烁指数随传播距离的增加而增大;当水深随传播距离逐渐变深时,声强起伏规律受内波和水深变化共同影响而更为复杂,闪烁指数先随传播距离增加而增大,之后又随传播距离的增加而逐渐变小.      

Experimental study of sound propagation in a flexible duct

Propagation of sound in a flexible duct is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Strong coupling of sound and flexural waves on the duct wall is found when the wall-to-air mass ratio is of the order of unity. The axial phase speed of sound approaches the in vacuo speed of flexural waves (subsonic in this case) at low frequencies. However, a speed higher than the isentropic sound speed in free space (340 m/s) is found beyond a critical frequency which is a function of the mass ratio. Experiments using a duct with a finite section of tensioned membrane are compared with the propagating modes pertaining to the infinite membrane model. Satisfactory quantitative agreement is obtained and the measured phase speed ranges from 8.3 to 1348 m/s. In the moderate frequency range, the theory predicts high spatial damping rate for the subsonic waves, which is consistent with the experimental observation that subsonic waves become increasingly undetectable as the frequency increases. Substantial sound reflection is observed at the interface between the rigid and the flexible segments of the duct without cross-section discontinuity, which, together with the high spatial damping, could form a basis for passive control of low-frequency duct noise.     

Long-range sound propagation in the shallow-water part of the Sea of Okhotsk

Experimental data on the long-range propagation of explosion-generated sound signals in the shallow-water northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk are analyzed. The propagation conditions in this region are characterized by a fully-developed underwater sound channel that captures the rays crossing the channel axis at angles lower than 3°. The experimental data reveal a small increase in the duration of the sound signal in proportion to the range with the proportionality factor lower than 0.00025 s/km. The frequency dependence of attenuation exhibits a pronounced minimum whose position on the frequency axis is close to the critical frequency of the first “water” mode (about 160 Hz). The increase in the attenuation coefficient at lower frequencies is confirmed by the field calculations performed with the wave-field computer code and is explained by the sound energy loss in the bottom sediments. At frequencies higher than 200 Hz, as in the Baltic Sea, the most probable reason for the attenuation to exceed the absorption in sea water is sound scattering by internal waves.     

Frequency dependence and intensity fluctuations due to shallow water internal waves

A theory and experimental results for sound propagation through an anisotropic shallow water environment are presented to examine the frequency dependence of the scintillation index in the presence of internal waves. The theory of horizontal rays and vertical modes is used to establish the azimutal and frequency behavior of the sound intensity fluctuations, specifically for shallow water broadband acoustic signals propagating through internal waves. This theory is then used to examine the frequency dependent, anisotropic acoustic field measured during the SWARM'95 experiment. The frequency dependent modal scintillation index is described for the frequency range of 30-200 Hz on the New Jersey continental shelf.     

Collinear diffraction of restricted light beams by nonmonochromatic sound

The collinear diffraction of Gaussian light beams by a two-frequency sound beam is investigated theoretically. A set of equations relating the amplitudes of transmitted and diffracted waves is derived in the case of third-order nonlinearity. The distributions of light intensities along an acousto-optical cell are calculated at different ratios between the radii of the light and sound beams. The transmission curves for detuned light waves and combination components of the diffracted waves are constructed at different ratios between the radii of the light and sound beams. The changes in the dynamic range of an acousto-optical device are calculated for different diffraction efficiencies.     

多阶声模态分解的改进阻抗管法测量材料的高频吸声系数

为了测量高频材料吸声系数,采用声模态分解的方法,基于阻抗管构建测试设备,在阻抗管内测量超过平面波截止频率的的高频吸声系数.测量过程中,通过在阻抗管的周向和轴向分别布置传声器阵列,分离管道内前3阶周向声模态以及各阶声模态的轴向传播入射波和反射波,从而得到最高频率达10000 Hz的材料吸声系数,并通过对比常规阻抗管测试方...     

Nonlinear acoustic wave generation in a three-phase seabed

Generation of an acoustic wave by two pump sound waves is studied in a three-phase marine sediment, which consists of a solid frame and the pore water with air bubbles in it. To avoid shock-wave formation, the interaction is considered in the frequency range where there is a significant sound velocity dispersion. Nonlinear equations are obtained to describe the interaction of acoustic waves in the presence of air bubbles. An expression for the amplitude of the generated wave is obtained and numerical analysis of its dependence on distance and resonance frequency of bubbles is performed.     

Active control of normal particle velocity at a boundary between two media

A spatially one-dimensional model of a plane active double layer between two homogeneous elastic half-spaces is studied analytically. The layer synthesizes a preset smooth trajectory of the controlled boundary between the media without any mechanical support. The outer layer of the coating is a piezoelectric, and the inner layer is a polymer that is transparent for low-frequency sound and opaque for high-frequency sound because of dissipation. An algorithm for controlling the piezoelectric elements of the layer on the basis of signals from surface particle-velocity sensors is proposed, and a method for measuring the particle velocity is developed. Conditions of stability and efficiency of the synthesis are formulated. It is shown that the active layer thickness can be much smaller than the wavelength corresponding to the minimal time scale of the boundary trajectory to be formed. The accuracy of the trajectory synthesis depends on the accuracy of measuring, computing, and actuating elements of the system but does not depend on the vibroacoustic characteristics of the half-spaces separated by the active layer or on the presence of smooth waves in these half-spaces. For the synthesis to be efficient, the operating frequency band and the dynamic range of sensors and actuators should be many times greater than the frequency band and the dynamic range of the trajectory to be formed.     

The effect of geoacoustic characteristics of the bottom on the long-range sound propagation in an inhomogeneous ocean

The long-range sound propagation from a deep ocean to a receiving system located on the shelf is modeled. The waveguide model is constructed on the basis of the data of an acoustic-oceanographic experiment carried out in the northwestern Pacific. The sensitivity and the frequency dependence of the difference in the sound field levels at the crossing of the frontal zone on the geoacoustic characteristics of the bottom of the shelf and the continental slope are investigated. It is shown that the level difference decreases by 8.2 dB as the velocity of longitudinal waves increases by 100 m/s in the range within 1490–1820 m/s.     

Effect of random hydrodynamic inhomogeneities on low frequency sound propagation loss in shallow water

Low frequency (100–500 Hz) sound propagation loss on the US Atlantic continental shelf and in the Barents Sea in the presence of stochastic surface waves, and for the US Atlantic shelf also in the presence of internal waves, is studied for the range of up to 150 km by means of numerical simulations. Qualitative difference between sound propagation loss behavior on the US Atlantic shelf and in the Barents Sea is demonstrated for summertime conditions even without random inhomogeneities. It is shown that whereas internal waves have a weak effect on propagation loss, surface waves result in its considerable increase in both areas under wintertime conditions with a wind speed of more than 9 m/s.     

Nonlinear three-wave interaction in marine sediments

Nonlinear interaction of three acoustic waves in a sandy sediment is studied in the frequency range where there is a considerable wave velocity dispersion. The possibility of an experimental observation of the generation of a sound wave by two pump waves propagating at an angle to each other is estimated.     

Long-range sound propagation in the central region of the Baltic Sea

The data obtained from a set of experiments on the long-range, low-frequency (<5 kHz) sound propagation in the central region of the Baltic Sea are analyzed. The experiments were carried out in the summer season, with a fully developed underwater sound channel. Experimental data on the sound attenuation are presented. A significant excess of the attenuation coefficients over the predicted absorption coefficients is obtained. The quantitative estimates indicate that the sound scattering by internal waves is the most probable mechanism responsible for the observed excessive sound attenuation. The frequency dependence of the attenuation coefficient exhibits a minimum whose position on the frequency axis at the beginning of the summer season noticeably differs from that at the end of summer. The analysis of the propagation conditions allows one to relate the position of this minimum to the critical frequency of the water modes. In addition to the intensity parameters of the sound field, the formation of the time structure of explosion-generated signals propagating in the Baltic underwater sound channel is considered for the case of the sound propagation along the 360-km path crossing the Gotland Hollow. The specific role of the bottom waves in the time structure formation at short distances from the sound source is demonstrated.     

Temporal coherence of sound transmissions in deep water revisited

This paper examines the signal coherence loss due to internal waves in deep water in terms of the signal coherence time and compare to data reported in the literature over the past 35 years. The coherence time of the early raylike arrivals was previously modeled by Munk and Zachariasen ["Sound propagation through a fluctuating stratified ocean: Theory and observation," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59, 818-838 (1976)] using the supereikonal approximation and by Dashen et al. ["Path-integral treatment of acoustic mutual coherence functions for arrays in a sound channel," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77, 1716-1722 (1985)] using the path integral approach; a -1 [corrected] power frequency dependence and a -1/2 [corrected] power range dependence were predicted. Recent data in shallow water in downward refractive environments with internal waves suggested that the signal coherence time of the mode arrivals follows a -3/2 power frequency dependence and a -1/2 power range dependence. Since the temporal coherence of the acoustic signal is related to the temporal coherence of the internal waves, based on the observation that the (linear) internal waves in deep and shallow waters have a similar frequency spectrum, it is argued that the modelike arrivals in deep water should exhibit a similar frequency dependence in deep and shallow waters. This argument is supported by a brute-force application of the path integral to mode arrivals based on the WKB relation between the ray and mode. It is found that the data are consistent with the -3/2 power frequency dependence but more data are needed to further test the hypothesis.     

Calculation of Infrasonic Noise Characteristics by Measuring the Current Values of a Two-Dimensional Wind Wave Field

Acoustical Physics - The paper presents a scheme for calculating the current sound pressure values excited by wind waves in the infrasonic frequency range (0.1–5 Hz). The calculation is based...     

Low frequency surface waves in the presence of an external high frequency electric field

The problem of surface sound propagation in the presence of external high frequency dipole electric field is investigated using Vlasov-Poisson equations. The structure of the electric field of these surface waves is also determined. It has been found that the ion sound waves that exist in the presence of external high frequency waves are true surface waves while those without the external field are quasi-surface waves as the former waves decay within one wavelength away from the surface.     

Acoustic wave generation by microwaves and applications to nondestructive evaluation

Although acoustic wave generation by electromagnetic waves has been widely studied in the case of laser-generated ultrasounds, the literature on acoustic wave generation by thermal effects due to electromagnetic microwaves is very sparse. Several mechanisms have been suggested to explain the phenomenon of microwave generation, i.e. radiation pressure, electrostriction or thermal expansion. Now it is known that the main cause is the thermal expansion due to the microwave absorption. This paper will review the recent advances in the theory and experiments that introduce a new way to generate ultrasonic waves without contact for the purpose of nondestructive evaluation and control. The unidirectional theory based on Maxwell's equations, heat equation and thermoviscoelasticity predicts the generation of acoustic waves at interfaces and inside stratified materials. Acoustic waves are generated by a pulsed electromagnetic wave or a burst at a chosen frequency such that materials can be excited with a broad or narrow frequency range. Experiments show the generation of acoustic waves in water, viscoelastic polymers and composite materials shaped as rod and plates. From the computed and measured accelerations at interfaces, the viscoelastic and electromagnetic properties of materials such as polymers and composites can be evaluated (NDE). Preliminary examples of non-destructive testing applications are presented.     

随钻新型隔声体的声学性能研究*

近年来,随钻声波测井成为了一种新兴的勘探方式,但是在勘探过程中产生的钻铤波会影响地层信号的提取。如何能够更有效的提取地层信号,成为学者研究的重点课题。本文基于声子晶体理论设计了一种新型隔声体,相对于传统刻槽结构能够更好的压制钻铤波。首先基于周期结构理论,利用有限元软件COMSOL MUTIPHYSICS计算了不同刻槽结构的能带图,相比于传统刻槽结构,新型隔声体有更宽的带隙,说明新型刻槽结构可以更有效的阻隔钻铤波。接着在测井模型中对刻槽结构进行频响函数曲线的计算,验证了新型刻槽结构隔声效果在所计算频率范围内优于传统刻槽结构。然后分析了在能带计算和频响曲线计算下隔声效果最好的声源频率(17kHz和22kHz)时新型刻槽结构的STC(时间慢度相关法)处理对比,最后对比声源频率17kHz下新型刻槽结构和传统刻槽结构的STC信号处理,发现此声源频率时新型刻槽结构可以更好的提取地层折射纵波和横波。