Wave Propagation and Inversion in Shallow Water and Poroelastic Sediment

Abstract

To create a suite of computer codes (programs) that accurately model wave propagation and scattering in shallow water, to quantify the effects of poroelastic, stratified sediment and elastic mode conversion on wave propagation in shallow water at frequencies ranging from 10 Hz to several hundred kHz. To relate these effects to sonar system behavior and efficient design of sonar capable of finding buried/semi-buried/proud mines in shallow water environments, in the presence of poroelastic sediment and bubble layers. To understand the fundamental linear and nonlinear physics of wave propagation in poroelastic sediment with bubbles. To continue development and testing of K-space Integral Equation codes (K-SIE), finite difference time domain codes (FDTD), and Hybrid Parabolic marching/Finite difference (HP-MFD) and Hybrid Integral Equation/Finite Difference (HIEFD) methods for fast and accurate scattering and inverse scattering of objects buried in sediment with poroelastic (Biot) properties and containing bubble populations. To develop a Java-based, interactive, web site http://borup.aim.utah.edu [41] to make pseudo-analytic, FDTD, Integral Equation, and HIEFD and HP-MFD calculation methods in 3D and 2D, available to other researchers over the web.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA572507

Entities

People

  • James W. Wiskin
  • Steven A. Johnson

Organizations

  • University of Utah

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Elastic Waves
  • Equations
  • Forward Scattering
  • Frequency
  • Integral Equations
  • Integrals
  • Inverse Problems
  • Inverse Scattering
  • Inversion
  • Scattering
  • Sediments
  • Shallow Water
  • Time Domain
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Underwater engineering and Marine Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Space