Simulation of the lower boundary of an acoustic waveguide

The paper discusses simulation of the lower boundary of an acoustic waveguide. The applicability and relationship of rigid bottom and fluid half-space models are studied as a function of the bottom sediment parameters. The influence of bottom losses on the sound field characteristics in a waveguide is studied. Examples of numerical simulation are given.

     

匹配垂直质点振速的浅海地声参数反演

海底声学参数对海洋波导中的声场特性研究和相关应用具有重要意义。针对一次夏季黄海声传播实验,分析了浅海负跃层环境下垂直质点振速的传播特性和简正波结构,说明当声源和接收器均位于负跃层下时,除海底附近外的大部分深度上垂直质点振速能量较高,且与声压相比,号数高的简正波对垂直质点振速的贡献更大,利用垂直质点振速进行匹配场反演能获得更高的海底参数敏感性。分析了海底吸收系数对垂直质点振速匹配场反演的影响,结果表明只有当进行匹配场反演时设置的海底吸收系数接近真实值时,才能获得准确的海底声速、密度和海深反演结果。利用实验中矢量水听器获取的垂直质点振速信号进行匹配场反演,将海底吸收系数在变化范围内取不同值对海底声速、密度和平均海深进行全局搜索,根据代价函数值最大确定了海底声速、密度及平均海深的反演结果,并利用不同距离上的声压传播损失反演出不同频率下的海底吸收系数。根据反演得到的海底声学参数计算声压传播损失,与实验中声压水听器测量结果符合较好。     

Long-range reverberation in a randomly inhomogeneous shallow water with the use of focused radiation

The low-frequency bottom reverberation in a randomly inhomogeneous shallow water is investigated within the framework of a numerical experiment using vertical transmitting arrays focusing the acoustic field at various distances from the sea bottom. It is assumed that the main source of sound velocity fluctuations in the medium is represented by background internal waves. To focus the field, a phase conjugation of acoustic waves from a probe source positioned at the focusing point is used. It is demonstrated that the reverberation level is mainly determined by the presence of internal waves and may vary by 5–20 dB as the distance from the focusing point to the sea bottom increases up to H/2, where H is the channel depth.     

陆架斜坡海域上坡波导环境中声能量急剧下降现象及其定量分析

深度较浅的声源其辐射声波在陆架斜坡海域上坡传播时,在斜坡顶端会出现声能量急剧下降现象.利用射线声学模型分析了造成这一现象的原因,并根据抛物方程声场模型计算的深海和浅海平均传播损失定义了"声能量急剧下降距离",定量分析了声源位置对该现象的影响.结果表明:声源深度对"声能量急剧下降距离"影响较大,而声源与斜坡底端水平距离对其影响较小;当声源深度变大时,部分掠射角较小的声线最终能够达到斜坡顶端,致使"声能量急剧下降距离"增大,继续增加声源深度,将导致上坡声能量急剧下降现象消失.利用抛物方程声场模型对陆架斜坡海域上坡声传播进行数值仿真,结合"声能量急剧下降距离"的定义,计算并比较了声源位置不同时该距离的变化,数值计算结果验证了理论分析.     

一种低声速沉积层海底参数声学反演方法

软泥底环境下沉积层参数的声学反演是国际水声领域的一个研究热点.浅海中,当高声速基底和海水之间存在一层低声速(小于海水声速)的沉积层时,小掠射角情况下不同频率声传播损失会出现周期性增大现象.基于此现象,提出一种适用于低声速沉积层的海底参数声学反演方法.首先,推导给出小掠射角情况下传播损失周期增大的频率间隔与沉积层声速、厚度及近海底海水声速之间的解析表达式;其次,利用一次黄海实验中软泥底环境下的宽带声传播信号,提取了小掠射角下传播损失增大的频率周期;再次,把该解析表达式作为约束条件,结合Hamilton密度与声速的经验公式,采用匹配场处理反演给出沉积层的声速、密度、厚度及基底的声速、密度;然后,利用声传播损失数据反演得到泥底环境下不同频率的声衰减系数,通过拟合发现泥底声衰减系数随频率近似呈线性关系;最后,给出了双层海底模型和半无限大海底模型等效性的讨论.反演结果为低声速沉积层海底声传播规律研究与应用提供了海底声学参数.     

Study of a novel range-dependent propagation effect with application to the axial injection of signals from the Kaneohe source

A novel range-dependent propagation effect occurs when a source is placed on the seafloor in shallow water with a downward refracting sound speed profile, and sound waves propagate down a slope into deep water. Under these conditions, small grazing-angle sound waves slide along the bottom downward and outward from the source until they reach the depth of the sound channel axis in deep water, where they are detached from the sloping bottom and continue to propagate outward near the sound channel axis. This "mudslide" effect is one of a few robust and predictable acoustic propagation effects that occur in range-dependent ocean environments. As a consequence of this effect, a bottom mounted source in shallow water can inject a significant amount of acoustic energy into the axis of the deep ocean sound channel that can then propagate to very long ranges. Numerical simulations with a full-wave range-dependent acoustic model show that the Kaneohe experiment had the appropriate source, bathymetry, and sound speed profiles that allows this effect to operate efficiently. This supports the interpretation that some of the near-axial acoustic signals, received near the coast of California from the bottom mounted source located in shallow water in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, were injected into the sound channel of the deep Pacific Ocean by this mechanism. Numerical simulations suggest that the mudslide effect is robust.     

海底沉积物声特性与海水深度变化关系的研究

海底沉积物声特性的实验室测量结果,相对原位直接测量,将由于测量环境的改变而发生变化。其中海水深度(压强)的改变是影响海底沉积物声传播速度、声传播衰减系数的因素之一。文章以现有海底沉积物纵波传播速度理论为依据,分析了海水深度(压强)影响海底沉积物声传播速度、声传播衰减系数的原因;设计了海底沉积物声特性实验室仿真测量系统,并根据实验数据获得海水深度(压强)影响海底沉积物声传播速度、声传播衰减系数的变化规律。     

浅海低频声场中目标深度分类方法研究

分析了浅海甚低频声场中的垂直双水听器的互谱特性,尤其关注了声场中只存在两阶简正波时声压互谱的有功分量.数值计算表明：当两个水听器的深度布放合理时,声压互谱有功分量的正负号分布与水平距离无关,选择合适的水听器深度布放组合,可以用于水面目标、水下目标的双择判决;声速分布对该方法的使用影响不大,海底存在吸收将影响算法的作用距离,但在有效作用距离内,该算法仍有较好的稳健性.运用Pekeris波导有效深度的概念建立了声压互谱有功分量正负号分布特性的近似理论分析并可预报双水听器合理的布放深度.理论分析揭示了双水听器布放深度之和应等于波导有效深度,并且在有效深度限制的波导范围内,整个声场的声压互谱有功分量的正负号分布被分为三个水平区域.理论分析加深了对浅海低频声场特性的理解,对该算法的实际使用有指导意义. 关键词： 目标深度分类 浅海低频声场 声压互谱 有功分量     

深海海底斜坡环境下的声传播

海底地形变化对声传播具有很大影响,在南海深海区域海底斜坡环境下进行了一次声传播实验,实验显示倾斜海底环境下声传播损失出现了一些不同于平坦海底环境下的现象,分析并解释了海底地形变化对产生声传播差异的原因.结果表明,海底斜坡对声波的反射增强作用可使斜坡上方的声传播损失减少约5 d B.当声波第一次入射到达的海底位置有较小幅度的山丘(凸起高度小于1/10海深)时,海底小山丘即可对声波有反射遮挡作用,导致在其反射区特定传播距离和深度上出现倒三角声影区,比平坦海底环境下相同影区位置处的传播损失增大约8 d B,影响深度可达海面以下1500 m.而海底斜坡对声波的反射阻挡作用使得从海面反射及水体向下折射的会聚区结构消失,只剩下从水体向上折射的会聚结构.因此,海底地形对深海声传播影响较大,在水下目标探测和性能评估等应用中应予以重视.     

浅海不确定声场的随机多项式展开法研究

为获得求解浅海不确定声场的普适模型,建立了随机多项式展开法与Helmholtz方程的非嵌入式耦合模型,其间运用概率配点法求解多项式系数。针对仅当海水深度不确定时的Pekeris波导、声速剖面和海深均不确定时的Pekeris波导以及下限深度不确定温跃层等几种情形,计算了传播损失概率密度分布。结果表明所建模型对声场计算模型普适性强,计算精度和计算效率高,可用于研究含多个不确定环境参数、声速剖面复杂的浅海环境中声传播的不确定性。      

浅海周期起伏海底环境下的声传播

海底粗糙对水下声传播及水声探测等应用具有重要影响.利用黄海夏季典型海洋环境,分析了同时存在海底周期起伏和强温跃层条件下的声传播特性,结果表明:由于海底周期起伏的存在,对于低频(<1 kHz)、近程(10 km)的声信号,传播损失可增大5—30 dB.总结了声传播损失及脉冲到达结构随声源深度、海底起伏周期及起伏高度等因素变化的规律.当海底起伏周期不变时,起伏高度越大引起的异常声传播的影响随之变大;当起伏高度不变时,随着起伏周期变大,其对声传播的影响逐渐变小.用射线理论分析了其影响机理,由于海底周期起伏改变了声波与海底的入射和反射角度,使得原本小掠射角入射到海底的声线变为大掠射角,导致海底的反射损失增大;另一方面,声线反射角度的改变会使得原本可以到达接收点的声能量,由于与海底作用次数增加或变为反向传播而大幅度衰减.在浅海负跃层环境下,声源位于跃层上比位于跃层下对声传播影响更大.周期起伏海底对脉冲声传播的影响表现在引起不同角度的声线(或简正波号数)之间的能量发生转化,一些大角度声线能量衰减加大,多途结构变少.多途结构到达时间及相对幅度的变化进而影响声场的频谱,会使得基于匹配场定位的方法性能受到影响.所以,声呐在实际浅海环境中应用时,应对起伏海底的影响予以重视.此外,研究结果对海底地形测绘空间精度的提高也具有重要参考意义.     

Geoacoustic inversion for bottom parameters in a thermocline environment in the northern area of the South China Sea

Bottom acoustic parameters have important influence on the application of underwater acoustic propagation and source location.The acoustic parameters of the seabed in the northern of the South China Sea(SCS) were inversed using the experiment data from an acoustic experiment in 2015.Based on the comprehensive analysis of the influence of the sound speed fluctuation and the geoacoustic model on seabed inversion,the multi-parameter hybrid acoustic inversion scheme is improved by selecting the equi...     

Characteristics of the diffraction of acoustic waves in stratified sound channels

The results of calculations performed in the framework of the approximate approach developed by the authors are presented for the diffraction of sound waves by a stiff spheroid in an acoustic waveguide. The scattered sound field is analyzed as a function of the following parameters of the problem: the spheroid dimensions, its position relative to the sound source and the receiver, the vertical profile of sound velocity in the waveguide, and the acoustic parameters of the waveguide bottom.     

The impact of water column variability on horizontal wave number estimation and mode based geoacoustic inversion results

The influence of water column variability on low-frequency, shallow water geoacoustic inversion results is considered. The data are estimates of modal eigenvalues obtained from measurements of a point source acoustic field using a horizontal aperture array in the water column. The inversion algorithm is based on perturbations to a background waveguide model with seabed properties consistent with the measured eigenvalues. Water column properties in the background model are assumed to be known, as would be obtained from conductivity, temperature, and depth measurements. The scope of this work in addressing the impact of water column variability on inversion is twofold. Range-dependent propagation effects as they pertain to eigenvalue estimation are first considered. It is shown that mode coupling is important even for weak internal waves and can enhance modal eigenvalue estimates. Second, the effect of the choice of background sound speed profile in the water column is considered for its impact on the estimated bottom acoustic properties. It is shown that a range-averaged sound velocity profile yields the best geoacoustic parameter estimates.     

Sound Propagation in Shallow Water with an Inhomogeneous GAS-Saturated Bottom

We present the methods and results of numerical experiments studying the low-frequency sound propagation in one of the areas of the Arctic shelf with a randomly inhomogeneous gas-saturated bottom. The characteristics of the upper layer of bottom sedimentary rocks (sediments) used in calculations were obtained during a 3D seismic survey and trial drilling of the seafloor. We demonstrate the possibilities of substituting in numerical simulation a real bottom with a fluid homogeneous half-space where the effective value of the sound speed is equal to the average sound speed in the bottom, with averaging along the sound propagation path to a sediment depth of 0.6 wavelength in the bottom. An original technique is proposed for estimating the sound speed propagation in an upper inhomogeneous sediment layer. The technique is based on measurements of acoustic wave attenuation in water during waveguide propagation.     

深海不平海底对声场水平纵向相关性的影响

海底地形变化对与海底作用的声反射区声场空间相关性有重要影响。利用南中国海某深海海域的一次声学实验数据,对深海海底反射区的声场空间相关性进行了分析。实验观测到,在距离声源约29 km至35 km距离范围处,不平海底环境下的水平纵向相关性出现了一些不同于平坦海底环境下的振荡结构,利用射线声学理论分析并解释了这两种不同海底环境产生水平纵向相关差异的原因。结果表明,在深海平坦海底方向一次海底反射到达区,对声场起主要贡献的经过一次海底反射声线间的到达时间差随着水平距离的增加而逐渐减少,从而干涉叠加后的相位差在[0,2π]内发生周期性变化,导致该区域声场的水平纵向相关性随着间距增加呈周期性振荡现象;而不平海底方向的海底小山丘恰对一次海底反射声线的阻挡影响,不仅使得与平坦海底方向相同区域的声传播损失明显增大,而且由于相对更多的本征声线路径的复杂多途干涉,该区域水平纵向相关性不再呈现明显的振荡周期,相关系数也有所下降。研究结果对于分析在深海复杂海底地形环境下的声呐阵列探测性能具有重要意义。      

Researches on the distribution law of vector sound field in elastic wedge bottom

The method based on elastic parabolic equation method for calculating the sound vector field has been studied.The vector field in water and corresponding seismic wave field had been calculated for infra-sound in oceanic environment with elastic wedge bottom.The effects on sound field distribution for different frequency and depth of sound source had been researched,result shows that there is sound energy leakage into the bottom,the position where leakage occurred can be determined by the ratio of the ocean depth to the wavelength,as compared with normal mode theory.     

Frequency and amplitude alterations of sound modes in a space-dependent random mass density field

Abstract

We investigate the effect of a space-dependent random mass density field on small amplitude acoustic modes that are settled in a semi-infinite medium of a temperature growing linearly with depth. Using a perturbation method, the dispersion relation is derived in the form of Hill's determinant. Numerical solutions of this equation lead to the following conclusions: (a) a weak random field (with σ_eff?=?0.05) essentially affects long waves which experience attenuation and a frequency reduction; (b) for a stronger random field (with σ_eff?=?0.1), high-order sound modes behave as sound waves as they are attenuated and their frequencies are increased; (c) for a sufficiently strong random field (with σ_eff?=?0.2), mode coupling occurs, as a result of which the dispersive curves cross each other, the sound modes loose their identities, and some modes are amplified. Here σ_eff denotes the effective strength of a random field.     

三维浅海下弹性结构声辐射预报的有限元-抛物方程法

利用多物理场耦合有限元法对结构和流体适应性强、抛物方程声场计算高效准确的特点,提出了三维浅海波导下弹性结构声振特性研究的有限元-抛物方程法.该方法采用多物理场耦合有限元理论建立浅海下结构近场声辐射模型,计算局域波导下结构声振信息,并提取深度方向上复声压值作为抛物方程初始值;然后采用隐式差分法求解抛物方程以步进计算结构辐射声场.重点介绍了该方法对浅海下结构声辐射计算的准确性、高效性以及快速收敛性后,对Pekeris波导中有限长弹性圆柱壳的声振特性进行了分析.研究得出,当圆柱壳靠近海面(海底)时,其耦合频率比自由场下的要高(低),当潜深达到一定范围时,与自由场耦合频率基本趋于一致;在低频远场,结构辐射场与同强度点源声场具有一定的等效性,且等效距离随着频率增加而增加;由于辐射声场受结构振动模态、几何尺寸和简正波模式影响,结构辐射场传播的衰减规律按近场声影响区、球面波衰减区、介于球面波和柱面波衰减区、柱面波衰减区四个扩展区依次进行.