Effect of the fluctuant acoustic channel on the gain of a linear array in the ocean waveguide

The inhomogenous ocean waveguide,which leads the amplitude and phase of the signal arriving at a hydrophone array to fluctuate,is one of the causes that make the array gain deviate from its ideal value.The relationship between the array gain and the fluctuant acoustic channel is studied theoretically.The analytical expression of the array gain is derived via an acoustic channel transfer function on the assumption that the ambient noise field is isotropic.The expression is expanded via the Euler formula to give an insight into the effect of the fluctuant acoustic channel on the array gain.The result demonstrates that the amplitude fluctuation of the acoustic channel transfer functions has a slight effect on the array gain;however,the uniformity of the phase difference between the weighting coefficient and the channel transfer function on all the hydrophones in the array is a major factor that leads the array gain to further deviate from its ideal value.The numerical verification is conducted in the downslope waveguide,in which the gain of a horizontal uniform linear array(HLA)with a wide-aperture operating in the continental slope area is considered.Numerical result is consistent with the theoretical analysis.

MECHANISM OF WALL PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS BENEATH THE OPEN CHANNEL FLOW

Based on the measured results that wall pressure fluctuations are mainly de- cided by coherent structures of turbulence, the relationship between root-mean- square wall pressure and wall shear stress in turbulent shear flow and that between the intensities of pressure and fluctuating velocity in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence are established in this paper. These relationships are consistent with former works, and have good agreement with experimental data. The paper also dis- cusses the concept of 'apparent pressure' on the wall in mean flow.