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This book offers a uniquely complete and rigorous study of sound propagation and scattering in moving inhomogeneous media. This area of research is of great importance in many fields, including atmospheric and ocean acoustics, aero-acoustics, acoustics of turbulent flows, remote sensing of the atmosphere and ocean, noise pollution in the atmosphere, and wave propagation. The book begins by considering sound propagation through moving media with deterministic inhomogeneities such as vertical profiles of temperature and wind velocity in the atmosphere. It moves on to a study of sound propagation in random media with fluctuations in sound speed, density, and medium velocity. Then state-of-the-art numerical methods for calculating the sound field and its statistical characteristics are presented, with codes downloadable from the book’s website. This third edition revises the text from the previous edition for better readability. It also presents new results such as recently derived wide-angle parabolic equations. The atmospheric turbulence model is extended, and the statistical characteristics of acoustic signals are formulated for slanted and vertical propagation with comparison to experimental data. An entirely new chapter considers probability density functions of acoustic signals in a random medium. This book is essential for graduate students and researchers with a range of theoretical and applied interests in acoustics.

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Author:   Vladimir E Ostashev (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) ,  D Keith Wilson (U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Edition:   3rd edition
Weight:   1.290kg
ISBN:  

9781032035543

ISBN 10:   1032035544
Pages:   590
Publication Date:   07 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I. Theoretical foundations of acoustics in moving media 1. Introduction to acoustics in a moving medium 2. Equations for acoustic and internal gravity waves in an inhomogeneous moving medium 3. Geometrical acoustics in an inhomogeneous moving medium 4. Sound propagation in a stratified moving medium 5. Moving sound sources and receivers Part II. Sound propagation and scattering in random moving media 6. Random inhomogeneities in a moving medium and scattering of sound 7. Line-of-sight propagation: Amplitude and phase fluctuations of a sound field 8. Line-of-sight sound propagation: Statistical moments of a sound field 9. Multipath sound propagation in a random moving medium 10. Distributions of acoustic signals Part III. Numerical methods for sound propagation in moving media 11. Numerical representation of random fields 12. Ray acoustics and ground interactions 13. Wave-based frequency-domain methods 14. Wave-based time-domain methods 15. Uncertainty in sound propagation and its quantification

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Vladimir E. Ostashev is a Senior Research Scientist (ret.) with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Government Expert for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. D. Keith Wilson is Editor of Acoustics Today and an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Acoustics Research and Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is a Fellow and winner of the Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America.

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