Spatial field shifts in ocean acoustic environmental sensitivity analysis

This article examines the effects of spatial field shifts in ocean acoustic environmental sensitivity analysis. Acoustic sensitivity studies are typically based on comparing acoustic fields computed for a reference environmental model and for a perturbed model in which one or more parameters have been changed. The perturbation to the acoustic field due to the perturbed environment generally includes a component representing a spatial shift of the field (i.e., local field structure remains coherent, but shifts in range and/or depth) and a component representing a change to the shifted field. Standard sensitivity measures based on acoustic perturbations at a fixed point can indicate high sensitivity in cases where the field structure changes very little, but is simply shifted by a small spatial offset; this can conflict with an intuitive understanding of sensitivity. This article defines and compares fixed-point and field-shift corrected sensitivity measures. The approaches are illustrated with examples of deterministic sensitivity (i.e., sensitivity to a specific environmental change) and stochastic sensitivity (sensitivity to environmental uncertainty) in range-independent and range-dependent environments.     

The horizontal structure of the sound field in the ocean

Results of calculating the horizontal structure of acoustic field in the ocean with a canonical sound velocity profile are presented. The calculation is performed in the framework of geometrical acoustics by combining the fields of water-path rays at every point with allowance for their phases and amplitudes. The field distribution at a fixed depth is found to be not very informative: within a cycle length, it contains 1–3 maxima, which are mainly caused by the caustics present at the given depth. The width of caustics is ～0.1–1 km. Between the caustics, as well as in their absence, the field amplitude is much smaller than that in the regions of caustics and varies depending on the phases and amplitudes of rays arriving at a given point. The comparison of the calculated horizontal field structure with that obtained from full-scale measurements for the regions between the caustics is difficult because of the possible fluctuations of sound propagation conditions.     

Sensor configuration for distributed passive localization system in ocean acoustic field

In order to improve the localization accuracy of the distributed passive location system in the ocean acoustic field,a sensor configuration method is proposed b...     

The influence of the benthic frontal zone on acoustic wave propagation in the ocean and evaluation of the possibilities of its ray tomography

The specificity of ray trajectories in the presence of a benthic front, which is the boundary between the Antarctic deep and bottom waters, has been considered. Deep-water “noncanonical” caustic surfaces confined to the front have been found. The ability to reconstruct a sound velocity profile in the benthic frontal zone has been evaluated using methods of ray tomography in the ocean. A possible reconstruction of the profile using a horizontal displacement of the receiving antenna or transmitter at relatively small depths has been shown. Original Russian Text ? V.S. Ivanov, P.N. Kravchun, 2009, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Fizika, 2009, No. 2, pp. 92–97.     

Features of the energy structure of acoustic fields in the ocean with two-dimensional random inhomogeneities

The paper is devoted to the analytic study and numerical simulation of mid-frequency acoustic signal propagation in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous random shallow-water medium. The study was carried out by the cross section method (local modes). We present original theoretical estimates for the behavior of the average acoustic field intensity and show that at different distances, the features of propagation loss behavior are determined by the intensity of fluctuations and their horizontal scale and depend on the initial regular parameters, such as the emission frequency and size of sound losses in the bottom. We establish analytically that for the considered waveguide and sound frequency parameters, mode coupling effect has a local character and weakly influences the statistics. We establish that the specific form of the spatial spectrum of sound velocity inhomogeneities for the statistical patterns of the field intensity is insignificant during observations in the range of shallow-water distances of practical interest.     

Range dependence of the vertical structure of the sound field in the ocean

In the ocean without fluctuations, the sound field is calculated by the method of geometrical acoustics with allowance for purely water-path rays in a sound channel of canonical shape with a thickness of 4 km for distances of 500 and 2000 km. The sound field is determined as a sum of individual rays arriving at a given point with their own amplitudes and phases. It is shown that the vertical structure of the sound field consists of a number of caustics separated by regions with a quasi-random distribution of the field whose amplitude is much smaller than that in the caustics. At a fixed distance, the number of caustics is equal to the difference between the numbers of the ray turning points at the boundaries of the departure angle range. As the distance from the source increases, the number of caustics increases proportionally to distance.     

非线性对大气介质中阵列聚焦声场分布影响的研究

基于时域有限差分算法将大气中近似到二阶微小项的非线性声波波动方程进行离散化,得到了模拟采用的差分波动方程.在此基础上,数值模拟了初始声压强弱不同的5个点声源组成的线阵列垂直或斜向辐射的连续正弦波在大气中传播时二维声场的分布情况.将线性条件下的模拟结果与非线性条件下的模拟结果进行比较后发现:弱非线性会对声场的分布和阵列聚焦增益产生一定的影响,使声场分布波形比线性条件下的声场分布波形更加靠近阵列,聚焦效果变差;强非线性会使波形发生更严重畸变,这是由于产生了基频以外的其他频率声波引起的;非线性对斜向传播时声场分布的影响与垂直传播时的影响效果基本相同,但由于斜向辐射时的声波几何扩展造成的轴向声压衰减要大于垂直辐射时的轴向声压衰减,因此聚焦增益和强非线性的影响都将小于垂直辐射时的情况.     

Measured and calculated vertical structure of a sound field in the ocean

Results of measuring the monochromatic sound field with a dipping probe in the deep ocean are presented. The sound speed profile in the region of measurements had a minimum at a depth of 1600 m. The experiment was carried out in the Atlantic Ocean with the use of two vessels separated by a distance of approximately four ray cycles (～240 km). The experimental data are compared with the calculations based on a new concept of the Brillouin waves for describing the vertical structure of the sound field produced by rays. It is shown that a satisfactory agreement between experiment and calculation can be achieved by fitting the parameters of the experiment. Such a procedure allows one to refine or even to determine the experimental conditions, which not are always known. The proposed method of calculation offers an opportunity for solving inverse problems of ocean acoustics.     

海洋声场中分布式无源定位系统的节点配置方法

为了提高海洋声场中分布式无源定位系统的定位精度,提出一种基于自适应遗传算法的节点配置方法。首先,基于到达时间TOA(Time of Arrival)定位算法推导出均匀物理场与海洋声场中定位误差的CRLB(Cramer Rao Lower Bound)。之后,利用BELLHOP模型对海洋声场进行建模,获得任意位置处目标声源与节点接收信号相关的传递函数并对等效声速进行计算.以目标声源在观测区域内服从均匀分布为例,将定位误差的平均CRLB最小为优化准则,采用自适应遗传算法对节点进行优化配置。结果表明,该方法能够有效降低海洋声场中分布式无源定位系统的定位误差,并给出定位误差随节点个数增加呈非线性递减的变化趋势,可为工程应用提供理论指导。     

海洋声场中分布式无源定位系统的节点配置方法

为了提高海洋声场中分布式无源定位系统的定位精度,提出一种基于自适应遗传算法的节点配置方法。首先,基于到达时间TOA (Time of Arrival)定位算法推导出均匀物理场与海洋声场中定位误差的CRLB (Cramer Rao Lower Bound)。之后,利用BELLHOP模型对海洋声场进行建模,获得任意位置处目标声源与节点接收信号相关的传递函数并对等效声速进行计算.以目标声源在观测区域内服从均匀分布为例,将定位误差的平均CRLB最小为优化准则,采用自适应遗传算法对节点进行优化配置。结果表明,该方法能够有效降低海洋声场中分布式无源定位系统的定位误差,并给出定位误差随节点个数增加呈非线性递减的变化趋势,可为工程应用提供理论指导。     

Mapping of the ocean surface wind by ocean acoustic interferometers

Measurements of marine surface winds are crucial to understanding mechanical and thermodynamic forces on the ocean. Satellite measurements of surface winds provide global coverage but are problematic at high wind speeds. Acoustic techniques of wind speed retrieval, and even for tracking hurricanes, have been suggested as an alternative since wind is a strong source of ambient noise in the ocean. Such approaches involve near-local measurements with bottom-mounted hydrophones located close to the area of interest. This paper suggests a complementary approach: measuring directivity of low-frequency ambient noise in the horizontal plane. These measurements would employ long vertical line arrays (VLAs) spanning a significant portion of the ocean waveguide. Two VLAs separated by a distance of some tens of kilometers and coherently measuring acoustic pressure form a single ocean interferometer. By sampling the area of interest from different perspectives with at least two interferometers, marine surface winds might be mapped over horizontal scales of the order of 1000 km with about 10 km resolution (more specifically, the 10 km resolution here means that contribution from the basis functions representing surface wind field with the scale of spatial variations of the order of 10 km can be resolved; independent retrieval of the wind within 10(4) cells of a corresponding grid is hardly possible). An averaging time required to overcome statistical variability in the noise field is estimated to be about 3 h. Numerical simulations of propagation conditions typical for the North Atlantic Ocean are presented.     

Diffraction characteristics of acoustooptic interaction in an acoustic field with a curved wave front

A theoretical model is presented for the strong two-dimensional acoustooptic interaction (AOI) of finite-size beams with arbitrary profiles in an acoustic field with a curved wave front. Transfer functions are derived in a universal normalized form for the AOI. The results of numerical simulation of the diffraction characteristics show that during AOI in an acoustic field with a curved wave front the product of the diffraction efficiency and bandwidth increases at least 1.5 times for a weak interaction and more than five times for a strong interaction. The optimal values of the normalized parameters (of the acoustooptic coupling and the curvature), for which the efficiency and bandwidth are maximum, are determined.Tomsk State Academy of Control Systems and Electronics. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 41–50, April, 1995.     

Investigation of the sound field structure in the ocean with a deep-water reception

The results of studying the angular and energy structures of a sound field at great depths (880 and 1100 m) with the emission of pseudonoise signals (a frequency range of 1–4 kHz) in the upper layers of the ocean below the velocline (at a depth of 200 m) are presented. The results refer to two ocean regions characterized by the presence of a single-axis deep-water sound channel. The sound field structure at great depths is compared with that recorded at the source depth. The experimental data for the first two convergence zones are compared with the calculations by the ray method. A conclusion is made that, on the whole, the basic regularities of the field structure at great depths are adequately described by the ray theory. However, the spatial positions of the convergence zones observed in the experiment differ from those predicted by the ray calculations. Moreover, a closer examination of the field characteristics shows that the parameters of the angular and energy structures noticeably deviate from the calculated values.     

Influence of electron band structure on dipole-nuclear acoustic resonance

For an arbitrary Fermi surface a quantum theoretical treatment of dipole-nuclear acoustic resonance in cubic metals is presented for the first time. In contrast to current theories the validity of our results is not restricted to certain temperature regions.     

Interrelation between ray and mode field representations in an acoustic waveguide

Some well-known results obtained by Brekhovskikh, Felsen, Tindle, Guthrie, and other authors during their studies of the interrelation between modes and rays in a plane-layered waveguide are briefly discussed. The relationships that extend these results to the case of a waveguide with large-scale inhomogeneities of the refractive index are analyzed. It is shown that in the presence of inhomogeneities, the groups of the constructively interfering modes, as in the case of a plane-layered waveguide, also form contributions of individual rays. In this case, fluctuations of the amplitudes of normal modes can be described by simple ray formulas, which are the mode analogs of the relationships of geometric optics and the smooth perturbation method.Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 38, Nos. 1–2, pp. 115–121, January–February, 1995.     

基于时空滤波理论的低频声场干涉结构研究

基于时空滤波理论, 采用相干函数、功率响应函数、扩展分布函数、双频函数四个系统函数较波导不变量更全面地描述了低频声场的相干结构. 理论分析、仿真研究和海试数据处理都验证了低频声场存在稳定的干涉结构, 当目标由远及近、又由近及远做匀速直线运动时, 相干函数(LOFAR图)的干涉结构为一簇类双曲线; 功率响应函数的干涉图表征了简正波群时延的差分, 体现了其频散特性; 扩展分布函数能反映LOFAR图上干涉条纹的斜率大小; 而双频函数能体现相慢度的差分. 各个系统函数均能特别突出干涉结构的某方面的特征, 各有特色.     

Influence of resonator shape on nonlinear acoustic field in a thermoacoustic engine

The influence of the resonator shape on nonlinear acoustic field in a thermoacoustic engine is studied.The resonator of themoacoustic engine is boundary driving by a piston at one end,and the other end of it is rigid closed.A one-dimensional wave equation that accounts for gas dynamic nonlinearities and viscous dissipation in the resonator is established based on the governing equations of viscous hydromechanics.The nonlinear wave equation is solved using approximate Galerkin method.The nonlinear acoustic field in four different types of shaped resonators including hyperbolical,exponential,conical and sinusoidal are obtained and compared with that of a cylindrical resonator.It is found that the amplitude and waveform of the pressure are strongly affected by the resonator shape,the driving amplitude and the oscillation frequency of the piston.Waveform distortion,resonance frequency shift and hysteresis are observed,when the piston oscillation amplitude is large enough.The advantages of shaped resonator for thermoacoustic engine lie in inhibition of higher order harmonics and improvement of pressure ratio,etc.     

Correlation noise in the acoustic wave front inversion

Noise that accompanies the wave front inversion of sound signals is considered. It is shown that this noise is a consequence of the interference phenomena occurring in complex media with multiple signal reflections, which lead to a noiselike nature of the spectrum modulus. A method of the wave front inversion that allows one to reduce the interference noise is proposed. The aforementioned phenomena are numerically analyzed.