Application of fluctuations in the sound field in inversion of internal solitary wave phase speed

Abstract

Internal solitary waves propagation perturbing the sound velocity field, causes fluctuations in the sound field. This paper proposes to process the sound pressure data by the Product of the Slope and the even square of the Difference between two points of the acoustic parameter-time curve (PSD). The PSD processed data are processed to time-frequency analysis to extract the frequencies of the fluctuations in sound field. In this paper, numerical simulations and laboratory experiments are carried out on the process of internal solitary wave propagation in the sound field, and the characteristics of the sound field perturbation by internal solitary waves of different amplitudes are investigated. Results are both showing that the method can extract the dominant frequency of fluctuations in the sound field caused by internal solitary waves in real conditions. The method can be applied to the inversion of internal solitary wave phase speed which related to other parameters such as amplitude and characteristic width by theory. It is anticipated that this method can help realize the monitoring of internal solitary waves using acoustic paths.