Acoustic plane-wave scattering from a rough surface over a random fluid medium

✍ Scribed by Jin-Yuan Liu; Chen-Fen Huang; Ping-Chang Hsueh

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 173 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8018
• DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(01)00056-7

✦ Synopsis

Acoustic plane-wave scattering from a rough surface overlying a fluid half-space with a sound-speed distribution subject to a small random variation is considered. Under the assumption that the surface roughness and medium randomness are statistically independent, the scattered field may be derived by first solving for the mean field in the medium, and then incorporating with boundary-perturbation method to obtain the total mean field and the power spectral density of the scattered field. The employed algorithm is compatible to the analysis available in the existing literature so that the formulations are conveniently integrated. The results for the power spectral density have shown that the effects of medium inhomogeneities on the rough surface scattering are limited in a spectral regime where the scattered components have shallow grazing angles. The distribution of the power spectral density over the space is primarily governed by the power spectrum and correlation lengths of the rough surface.