Motion of Mass Source in Stratified Fluid

Abstract

The paper considers the problem of determining properties of an underwater moving source by analyzing the perturbation that it creates in electromagnetic or hydrodynamic fields. The computer program has been developed to simulate the spatial propagation of gravitational waves from the mass source moving along an arbitrary trajectory in a stratified fluid. The calculation results are in good agreement with analytical results obtained in the far-field approximation and with the results of experiments on the flow around underwater obstacles, moreover, the proposed technique allows to simulate any arbitrary motion of the source. Two new approaches to solving the inverse problem of determining the characteristics of the source of disturbances are proposed. The first one is based on the analysis of the signal received by radio-sensors, that scan the surface of the ocean. The second one uses data obtained from sensors installed directly in the water column.