Computational Ocean Acoustics

"Many practical suggestions and tips; the examples are meaningful and the illustrations are effective....Destined to become a classic reference that any serious practitioner of ocean acoustics cannot afford to ignore." Revue de livre Authored by four internationally renowned scientists, this volume covers 20 years of progress in computational ocean acoustics and presents the latest numerical techniques used in solving the wave equation in heterogeneous fluid-solid media. The authors detail various computational schemes and illustrate many of the fundamental propagation features via 2-D color displays. TOC:From the contents: Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics: Sound Propagation in the Ocean. Bottom Loss.- Wave Propagation Theory: Homogeneous Media. Layered Media and Waveguides.- Ray Methods: Mathematical Derivation. Ray Anomalies: Caustics and Shadow Zones.- Wavenumber Integration Techniques: Numerical Solution of the Depth Equation. Wavenumber Integration.- Normal Modes: A Deep Water Problem: the Munk Profile. Normal Modes for Range-Dependent Environments.- Parabolic Equations: Derivation of Parabolic Equations. Solutions by FFTs.- Finite Differences and Finite Elements: Finite-Element Methods. Boundary-Element Methods.- Broadband Modeling: Time-Domain Solutions. Seismic Interface Waves.- Ambient Noise: Surface Noise in a Stratified Ocean. Surface Noise in a Three-Dimensional Ocean.- Signals in Noise. Plane-Wave Beamforming. Simulating Matched-Field Processing.