Ray and Wave Chaos in Ocean Acoustics: Chaos in Waveguides: 1 (Series on Complexity, Nonlinearity, and Chaos) - Hardcover

Denis Makarov; Sergey Prants; Anatoly Virovlyansky; George Zaslavsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814273171 ISBN 13: 9789814273176

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010

Synopsis

A systematic study of chaotic ray dynamics in underwater acoustic waveguides began in the mid-1990s when it was realized that this factor plays a crucial role in long-range sound propagation in the ocean. The phenomenon of ray chaos and its manifestation at a finite wavelength - wave chaos - have been investigated by combining methods from the theory of wave propagation and the theory of dynamical and quantum chaos. This book is the first monograph summarizing results obtained in this field. Emphasis is made on the exploration of ray and modal structures of the wave field in an idealized environmental model with periodic range dependence and in a more realistic model with sound speed fluctuations induced by random internal waves. The book is intended for acousticians investigating the long-range sound transmission through the fluctuating ocean and also for researchers studying waveguide propagation in other media. It will be of major interest to scientists working in the field of dynamical and quantum chaos.

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Review:

"The reviewed book is the first book in which are discussed the methods and concepts used in the theory of ray and wave chaos and presented a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in this branch of ocean acoustics. The book can be recommended to postgraduate students as a good introduction to the methods of ocean acoustics and to researchers in applied mathematics, physics, oceanography as fundamental work in the ray and wave chaos in ocean acoustics." --Zentralblatt MATH

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9814273171
• ISBN 13: 9789814273176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412