Acoustics in Moving Inhomogeneous Media

Dr. Vladimir E. Ostashev is a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) of the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and a government expert for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute, Russia in 1979. Since 1979, he has worked at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Moscow, Russia), Acoustics Institute (Moscow, Russia), and New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM), and is an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and JASA Express Letters. Dr. D. Keith Wilson is a research physical scientist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), in Hanover, NH. He received a Ph.D. in acoustics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1992. Dr. Wilson has been awarded U.S. Army Research and Development Achievement Awards on four occasions and received the U.S. Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2012. He is associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, founding editor of JASA Express Letters, and a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute for Noise Control Engineering, and the American Meteorological Society.

I Theoretical foundations of acoustics in moving media. Introduction to acoustics in a moving medium. Equations for acoustic and internal gravity waves in an inhomogeneous moving medium. Geometrical acoustics in an inhomogeneous moving medium. Wave theory of sound propagation in a stratified moving medium. Moving sound sources and receivers. II Sound propagation and scattering in random moving media. Random inhomogeneities in a moving medium and scattering of sound. Line-of-sight sound propagation in a random moving medium. Multipath sound propagation in a random moving medium. III Numerical methods for sound propagation in moving media. Numerical representation of random fields. Ray acoustics and ground interactions. Wave-based frequency-domain methods. Wave-based time-domain methods. Uncertainty in sound propagation and its quantification. Bibliography. Index.