Wave propagation in underwater acoustic waveguides with rough boundaries

DOI10.4310/CMS.2015.V13.N8.A3zbMATH Open1327.76028arXiv1110.3846MaRDI QIDQ889111FDOQ889111

Authors: Christophe Gomez 

Publication date: 6 November 2015

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In underwater acoustic waveguides a pressure field can be decomposed over three kinds of modes: the propagating modes, the radiating modes and the evanescent modes. In this paper, we analyze the effects produced by a randomly perturbed free surface and an uneven bottom topography on the coupling mechanism between these three kinds of modes. Using an asymptotic analysis based on a separation of scales technique we derive the asymptotic form of the distribution of the forward mode amplitudes. We show that the surface and bottom fluctuations affect the propagating-mode amplitudes mainly in the same way. We observe an effective amplitude attenuation which is mainly due to the coupling between the propagating modes themselves. However, for the highest propagating modes this mechanism is stronger and due to an efficient coupling with the radiating modes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3846

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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)

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