Surface prereverberation in long-range propagation of explosion-generated signals in underwater sound channe

Experimental data on long-range propagation of explosion-generated signals in a well-developed underwater sound channel are analyzed. In the experiments, the wind speed reached 10–11 m/s and the sea state was Beaufort 4–6. At distances of 80–120 km from the source and at two different reception depths, a prereverberation is observed, that is, the advancing of a part of the bistatic surface reverberation with respect to the direct signal. The conditions for the prereverberation to arise are discussed for different distances from the source. On the basis of data processing, the increase rate of the prereverberation signal, its level relative to the direct signal, and frequency dependence are estimated.     

Interference structure of low-frequency reverberation signals in shallow water

Using numerical simulation, an analysis was conducted of the interference structure of a bottomscattered sound field generated by a wideband point source in shallow water under winter and summer conditions. The scattered signals were received from the place where the source was located and were subjected to Fourier transform with a sliding window. The paper demonstrates the possibility of estimating the waveguide invariant for backscattered signals when processing the sound intensity distributions in wide frequency and distance ranges up to the scattering area. A technique is proposed for reconstructing the twodimensional field of internal waves using variations of the interference pattern of reverberation signals. The influence of wind surface waves on the degree of interference band contrast is illustrated.     

收、发分置混响平均强度理论预报

建立双基地混响几何模型,推导出收、发分置混响的平均强度估算公式。考察双基地远程界面混响,对于漫散射界面,散射区为一椭圆环带,分别给出柱面波声场和球面波声场情况下,无指向性收、发分置混响的平均强度估算公式。给出窄波束接收阵时,双基地声呐的混响级和信混比的估算公式。仿真表明,椭圆模型可以方便准确的预报双基地混响强度及研究其特征规律,便于双基地声呐系统集成,适合工程应用。     

Experimental studies of low-frequency bistatic reverberation in a shallow sea

Experimental data are presented on time and frequency dependences of the reverberation level for bistatic transmission and reception at low acoustic frequencies. The data are obtained from the studies carried out in a coastal shallow-water region and in the central region of the Barents Sea with explosion-generated and pulsed cw signals. By using the simplest computational model, approximate estimates are obtained for the effective coefficient of spatial attenuation and the effective scattering coefficient in the frequency band 40–400 Hz.     

双基地冰-水界面混响强度的理论预报

针对北极冰层冰水界面具有小尺度粗糙界面的情况,给出由冰层造成的混响平均强度的理论预报公式。首先将北极冰层等效为具有粗糙界面的弹性介质,并且采用小粗糙度微扰理论在精细拟合粗糙度谱的基础上,建立粗糙冰层的三维散射强度模型,然后建立三维双基地声呐几何模型确定有效散射区域,最后给出双基地冰下混响平均强度的估算公式,并在所拟合的粗糙度谱的情况下,利用该预报公式计算双基地声呐配置参数和海冰物理及声学特性对冰下混响强度的影响算例。数值仿真表明该公式能够估算出北极冰下双基地声呐产生的混响平均强度,并且分析出了时延、基线长度等声呐配置参数和冰层声速比、密度比等海冰物理参数会对混响强度造成的影响。声呐的配置参数主要影响散射的有效面积,海冰的物理参数则影响着冰层的散射强度。其中,冰层声速比不仅影响混响强度的大小,还会影响混响强度随时间的衰减速度。     

Method of coupled mode for long-range bottom reverberation

The theory of coupled mode is used for modeling the long-range bottom reverberation in shallow water caused by bottom roughness. The distant bottom reverberation level and spatial coherence of impulsive source are both derived. The results agree with those from the classical reverberation model, and are compared with the experimental data. The influence of source bandwidth and the distance between sources and receivers on the intensity of bottom reverberation are particularly discussed. The method is shown to be available for both the monoand the bi-static cases.     

浅海异地混响理论与实验比较

在亚洲海国际声学实验(ASIAEX2001)中记录了本地混响和异地混响的实验数据。对数据进行处理时,发现异地混响数据和本地混响数据有较大差异:本地混响衰减和混响垂直相关小于异地混响衰减和垂直相关。为了解释这一现象,根据浅海混响的射线简正波理论,结合三维海底散射模型,给出了浅海异地混响衰减和混响垂直相关的一般表达式。讨论了与本地混响衰减和混响垂直相关的关系,并与实验数据进行了比较。理论计算和实验数据表明:在经过时延(从声源到接收器的传播时间)后,较远距离的异地混响衰减与混响垂直相关可以由本地混响衰减和垂直相关近似表示。     

双基地混响平均强度理论及仿真预报

考察远程双基地界面混响,可以仅考察二维问题,其散射区域为一椭圆环带;对于近程双基地界面混响,必须讨论三维模型,其散射元分布在一椭球面上.对二维和三维双基地混响进行理论建模分析,该模型优点是无需使用无线电通信,借助GPS时钟即可同步工作,实现双基地声呐系统的测距及测向,便于双基地声呐系统的集成.推导出二维和三维模型的双基地声压混响理论预报公式.对三维矢量混响作仿真研究,并讨论矢量传感器组合指向性抗混响. 关键词： 双基地混响 声压混响 矢量混响     

Spatial correlation of explosion-generated signals received by longitudinally separated hydrophones in the Mediterranean Sea

Results of an experiment carried out in the Mediterranean Sea on a propagation track ～400 km in length are presented. The sources of sound were 2.5-kg trinitrotoluene charges. The signals were received by three hydrophones spatially separated along the track by distances of 100 and 300 m. The hydrophones were carried by radio buoys, which were connected with each other and with the receiving vessel. The frequency band under study was 240–340 Hz. Under the conditions of the experiment, the spatial correlation interval obtained with averaging over the spreading time of multipath signals proved to be smaller than 100 m. It was shown that the resolution of signals arriving over individual ray paths or in narrow ray bundles considerably increased this interval. In this case, its experimental value was found to exceed 300 m.     

基于信道传播理论的多基地远程海底混响研究

针对浅海多基地远程海底混响, 以声传播的线性信道近似理论为基础, 通过确定海底界面的不均匀起伏特性, 对入射声波的远距离异地混响脉冲响应函数进行求解. 对非水平分层介质的浅海波导, 利用绝热简正波求解信道的传输函数, 得出了小角度斜坡海底的远程海底混响强度, 以下坡海底为例, 分析对比了不同海底倾角斜坡海底对远程异地混响强度及其衰减规律的影响. 理论仿真表明, 波导的传输效应对多基地远程海底混响强度的影响不可忽略.     

Time reversed reverberation focusing in a waveguide

Time reversal mirrors have been applied to focus energy at probe source locations and point scatterers in inhomogeneous media. In this paper, we investigate the application of a time reversal mirror to rough interface reverberation processing in a waveguide. The method is based on the decomposition of the time reversal operator which is computed from the transfer matrix measured on a source-receiver array [Prada et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2067-2076 (1996)]. In a similar manner, reverberation data collected on a source-receiver array can be filtered through an appropriate temporal window to form a time reversal operator. The most energetic eigenvector of the time reversal operator focuses along the interface at the range corresponding to the filter delay. It is also shown that improved signal-to-noise ratio measurement of the time reversal operator can be obtained by ensonifying the water column with a set of orthogonal array beams. Since these methods do not depend upon a priori environmental information, they are applicable to complex shallow water environments. Numerical simulations with a Pekeris waveguide demonstrate this method.     

Investigation of long-range sound propagation in surface ducts

Understanding the effect of source-receiver geometry on sound propagation in surface ducts can improve the performance of near-surface sonar in deep water. The Lloyd-mirror and normal mode theories are used to analyze the features of surface-duct propagation in this paper. Firstly, according to the Lloyd-mirror theory, a shallow point source generates directional lobes, whose grazing angles are determined by the source depth and frequency. By assuming a part of the first lobe to be just trapped in the surface duct, a method to calculate the minimum cutoff frequency （MCF） is obtained. The presented method is source depth dependent and thus is helpful for determining the working depth for sonar. Secondly, it is found that under certain environments there exists a layer of low transmission loss （TL） in the surface duct, whose thickness is related to the source geometry and can be calculated by the Lloyd-mirror method. The receiver should be placed in this layer to minimize the TL. Finally, the arrival angle on a vertical linear array （VLA） in the surface duct is analyzed based on normal mode theory, which provides a priori knowledge of the beam direction of passive sonar.     

Year-to-year variability of the long-range propagation conditions in the Norwegian Sea

On the basis of the experimental data on the sound field formation in the Norwegian Sea, the year-to-year variability of the propagation conditions is estimated. A comparative analysis is performed for the data obtained from two long-range-propagation experiments with explosion-generated signals. The experiments were carried out in summertime (August) on a path crossing the central deep-water part of the Norwegian Sea and were separated in time by a period of four years. Noticeable changes are found to occur in the sound speed fields between the two experiments. These changes are related to a change in the distance between the cores of cold waters (observed in the region of the Norwegian Basin) and warm waters (observed in the region of the Lofoten Basin). According to calculations, the observed changes in the sound speed structure can lead to considerable changes in the propagation anomaly and in the range dependence of the sound field decay. In spite of the noticeable difference in the propagation conditions, the experimental coefficients of low-frequency attenuation differ little for the two experiments.     

Time reversal imaging of suspended target in strong reverberation

The weighted wideband time-reversal imaging approach of full signal subspaces was proposed.The extended target is modeled as an infinite number of independent point-like scatterers,and the imaging is constructed by accumulating all time-reversal images over all signal subspaces and the entire bandwidth in the region of suspected targets.On the bottom of a laboratory water waveguide,a cylindrical shell was used to produce reverberation.Two experiments were carried out.The first experiment is that...     

强混响背景下悬浮目标的时反成像

提出了一种加权宽带全信号子空间时反成像方法,将扩展性目标建模为有限数量个、相互独立的点散射体构成,实现了时反成像在可疑目标区域的全信号子空间和整个宽带的累加。在实验室波导水池中,底部放置圆柱筒制造混响背景,共进行了两个实验,一是扩展性的悬浮目标位于圆柱筒附近,其回波与圆柱筒反射的混响不在同一个时间窗内,二是弱点目标回波与圆柱筒反射的混响重叠于同一个时间窗内,对所提出的方法进行强混响背景下弱悬浮目标的成像能力验证。结果表明,此方法对强混响背景下的弱悬浮目标的成像质量明显优于传统的时反成像方法。     

Ray dynamics in long-range deep ocean sound propagation

Recent results relating to ray dynamics in ocean acoustics are reviewed. Attention is focused on long-range propagation in deep ocean environments. For this class of problems, the ray equations may be simplified by making use of a one-way formulation in which the range variable appears as the independent (timelike) variable. Topics discussed include integrable and nonintegrable ray systems, action-angle variables, nonlinear resonances and the KAM theorem, ray chaos, Lyapunov exponents, predictability, nondegeneracy violation, ray intensity statistics, semiclassical breakdown, wave chaos, and the connection between ray chaos and mode coupling. The Hamiltonian structure of the ray equations plays an important role in all of these topics.     

Time reversal of noise sources in a reverberation room

Usually, time reversal is studied with pulsed emissions. Here, the properties of time reversal of the acoustic field emitted by noise sources in a reverberation room are studied numerically, theoretically, and experimentally. A time domain numerical simulation of a two-dimensional enclosure shows that the intensity of a time-reversed noise is strongly enhanced right on the initial source position. A theory based on the link that exists between time reversal of noise and the "well-known" time reversal of short pulse is developed. One infers that the focal spot size equals half a wavelength and the signal to noise ratio only depends on the number of transceivers in the time reversal mirror. This last property is characteristic of the time reversal of noise. Experimental results are obtained in a 5 X 3 X 3 m3 reverberation room. The working frequency range varies from 300 Hz to 2 kHz. The ability of the time reversal process to physically reconstruct the image of two noise sources is studied. To this end, care is given to the technique to separate two close random sources, and also to the influence of temperature fluctuations on the focusing quality.     

氢原子束在大气长程传输中的剥离效应

考虑到中性粒子束对近地轨道太空垃圾的清理作用以及在太空探索中的潜在应用前景,研究了中性粒子束在亚轨道空间长程传输过程中影响束流能量和密度损失的主要物理机制,重点分析了剥离效应对束流损耗的影响。中性束剥离效应包括束流粒子之间碰撞导致的自剥离效应和其与大气粒子碰撞导致的剥离效应。以束密度随传播距离变化的方程为基础,通过引用几何因子来表征束流的自剥离效应强度,建立了剥离效应机制下束流的传输模型,由此评估了束流自剥离效应在中性束长程传输中对传输距离的影响关系。研究结果表明,在固定的高度,当中性束密度大于空气粒子密度时,自剥离效应的影响将非常突出,随着传输高度的升高,即使束密度和空气密度同时降低维持量级一致,自剥离效应对传输距离的影响在大几何因子的情况下仍会增强。     

Causal propagation of signals in strangeon matter

The state equation for strangeon matter is very stiff due to the non-relativistic nature of its particles and their repulsive interaction,such that pulsar masses as high as～3 M_⊙ would be expected. However, an adiabatic sound speed, c_s=(?P/?ρ)～(1/2), is usually superluminal in strangeon matter, and the dynamic response of a strangeon star(e.g., binary merger) is not tractable in numerical simulations. In this study, we examined signal propagation in strangeon matter and calculate the actual propagation speed, c_(signal).We found that the causality condition, c_(signal) c, is satisfied and the signal speed is presented as a function of stellar radius.