Abstract
Harbor basins and estuarine environments experience drastic salinity fluctuations in the water near the water-sediment interface, which can significantly affect how sound interacts with a low-velocity mud bottom. This presents challenges in applications including mine detection, port protection and shallow water sonar. In a previous investigation of this system, a mud sample that was saturated with fresh water was instantaneously exposed to salt water. Laboratory measurements of plane wave reflection from the water-mud interface were obtained using a time-gated broadband impulse as time evolved. Results suggested molecular diffusion of salt into the sample had altered the reflected pulse’s amplitude and caused a depth-dependent impedance profile in the mud. The sediment was discretized into layers much thinner than a wavelength and a multi-layer steady-state model was used to predict the reflection from the diffusing mud. As the effective diffusion length reached a critical value, predictions of the steady-state model began to deviate from the measurements, indicating that a transient solution was required. A model of the transient reflection of a finite-length pulse from a half space with an arbitrary impedance will be presented and model results compared with laboratory measurements. [Work supported by ONR.]
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