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Theory for acoustic propagation in marine sediment containing gas bubbles which may pulsate in a non-stationary nonlinear manner

Theory for acoustic propagation in marine sediment containing gas bubbles which may pulsate in a non-stationary nonlinear manner
Theory for acoustic propagation in marine sediment containing gas bubbles which may pulsate in a non-stationary nonlinear manner
Whilst there is a considerable body of work in the literature on the theory of acoustic propagation in marine sediments, the incorporation of gas bubbles into such theories is done with the inclusion of assumptions which severely limit the applicability of those models to practical gas-laden marine sediments. This paper provides a theory which does not assume that the bubble dynamics are linear, steady-state and monochromatic. Such assumptions would be incompatible with many of the practical acoustic fields with which sediments are insonified today. These fields are necessarily high amplitude to provide adequate signal-to-noise ratios, given the high attenuation in gassy marine sediments; and often they utilise short pulses to obtain range resolution. This paper provides a theory appropriate for predicting the acoustically-driven non-stationary nonlinear dynamics of spherical gas bubbles embedded in a lossy elastic solid, and discusses how this could be incorporated into a nonlinear, time-dependent propagation model.
ocean acoustics, gassy marine sediments, bubbles
0094-8276
L17607
Leighton, T.G.
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Leighton, T.G.
3e5262ce-1d7d-42eb-b013-fcc5c286bbae

Leighton, T.G. (2007) Theory for acoustic propagation in marine sediment containing gas bubbles which may pulsate in a non-stationary nonlinear manner. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (17), L17607. (doi:10.1029/2007GL030803).

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Whilst there is a considerable body of work in the literature on the theory of acoustic propagation in marine sediments, the incorporation of gas bubbles into such theories is done with the inclusion of assumptions which severely limit the applicability of those models to practical gas-laden marine sediments. This paper provides a theory which does not assume that the bubble dynamics are linear, steady-state and monochromatic. Such assumptions would be incompatible with many of the practical acoustic fields with which sediments are insonified today. These fields are necessarily high amplitude to provide adequate signal-to-noise ratios, given the high attenuation in gassy marine sediments; and often they utilise short pulses to obtain range resolution. This paper provides a theory appropriate for predicting the acoustically-driven non-stationary nonlinear dynamics of spherical gas bubbles embedded in a lossy elastic solid, and discusses how this could be incorporated into a nonlinear, time-dependent propagation model.

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Published date: 12 September 2007
Keywords: ocean acoustics, gassy marine sediments, bubbles
Organisations: Fluid Dynamics & Acoustics Group

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Local EPrints ID: 49447
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/49447
ISSN: 0094-8276
PURE UUID: 02b3a4d8-33f3-4921-a9e2-1883d870092e
ORCID for T.G. Leighton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1649-8750

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Date deposited: 12 Nov 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:44

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