Loss of resolution for the time reversal of waves in random underwater acoustic channels

DOI10.1142/S0218202513500267MaRDI QIDQ2845075zbMATHFDO

Authors Christophe Gomez

Publication date 22 August 2013

Published in M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5157

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic analysisrandom mediaacoustic waveguides

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

Abstract: In this paper we analyze a time-reversal experiment in a random underwater acoustic channel. In this kind of waveguide with semi-infinite cross section a propagating field can be decomposed over three kinds of modes: the propagating modes, the radiating modes and the evanescent modes. Using an asymptotic analysis based on a separation of scales technique we derive the asymptotic form of the the coupled mode power equation for the propagating modes. This approximation is used to compute the transverse profile of the refocused field and show that random inhomogeneities inside the waveguide deteriorate the spatial refocusing. This result, in an underwater acoustic channel context, is in contradiction with the classical results about time-reversal experiment in other configurations, for which randomness in the propagation medium enhances the refocusing.

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