Wave Interactions As a Seismo-acoustic Source

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Alick C. Kibblewhite, Dr. Cheng Y. Wu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 59
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives a comprehensive, theoretical account of the wave-wave interaction process responsible for high acoustic noise levels, including: a geometric description of the interaction mechanism, which provides the basis for a full-wave analysis of the source process, the inclusion of both the monogeneous and inhomogeneous components of the wave-induced pressure field in the analytical description of the source, an examination of the relative contributions of the sum and difference-frequency components of the wave interaction process, the removal of the deep-water assumption of earlier analyses, and the development of an "exact" analytical expression which allows the source function of the wave-induced pressure field to be calculated over the whole frequency-wave number domain.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-9
A review of earlier theoretical analyses....Pages 11-20
The perturbation procedure....Pages 21-36
An exact expression for the homogenous component....Pages 37-57
Generalised solution of the potetial field....Pages 59-71
The generalised source spectrum....Pages 73-98
Properties of the wave-induced pressure field....Pages 99-149
The seismic response....Pages 151-180
Summary....Pages 181-182

✦ Subjects

Geophysics/Geodesy; Oceanography; Applied Geosciences