Fundamental Formulas for Sonar


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AbsorptionAlphaAinslieMcColm Calculation of absorption in sea water from Ainslie and McColm 1998
AbsorptionAlphaFisherSimmons Calculation of absorption in sea water from Fisher and Simmons 1977
AbsorptionSoundFreshWaterFrancoisGarrison Calculation of absorption of sound in fresh water From Francois & Garrison 1982
AbsorptionSoundSeaWaterFrancoisGarrison Calculation of absorption of sound in sea water From Francois & Garrison 1982
BandLevelFlatSpectrum band level (BL) for flat spectrum
BandLevelFromCompleteBand band level (BL) from complete band
BasicActiveSonarEquation basic active sonar equation
BasicPassiveSonarEquation basic passive sonar equation
BasicSonarEquation basic sonar equation
CavitationThresholdEstimateFunctionOfDepth Cavitation threshold estimate as a function of depth
CavitationThresholdEstimateFunctionOfRadiatedAcousticPowerIntensity Cavitation threshold estimate as a function of radiated acoustic power intensity
CorrectiveTermsDepthFromPressure Corrective terms to be added for obtaining depth from pressure
CorrectiveTermsPressureFromDepth Corrective terms to be subtracted for obtaining pressure from depth
CutoffFrequencyShallowWater Calculation of cutoff frequency in shallow water from Jensen et Al 2011
CutoffFrequencyWater Calculation of cutoff frequency in water from Jensen et Al 2011
DepthToPressureLeroyParthiot Depth To Pressure from Leroy Parthiot 1998
DetectionIndex Detection index
fuelStabilizer Number of milliliters or drops of stabilizer are needed to stabilize a certain amount of fuel
HydrophoneSensitivity Hydrophone Sensitivity
InternationalFormulaForGravity International Formula For Gravity
MaximumRadiatedPowerToAvoidCavitation Maximum radiated power to avoid cavitation
MolecularRelaxationAttenuationCoeficient Molecular relaxation attenuation coeficient (alpha)
MolecularRelaxationAttenuationCoeficientApproximation Molecular relaxation attenuation coeficient approximation
PeakTS peak pressure of the incident and reflected pulses
PlaneWaveIntensity Plane wave intensity
PlaneWavePressure Plane wave pressure
PLcylindricalSpreadingLaw PL to range r cylindrical spreading law in logarithmic form
PLSphericalSpreadingAndAbsorption PL Spherical Spreading and Absorption
PLsphericalSpreadingLaw PL to range r spherical spreading law in logarithmic form
PowerCylindricalSpreadingLaw Power cylindrical spreading law
PowerSphericalSpreadingLaw Power spherical spreading law
PressureBalticSimplifiedLeroy Calculation of pressure in the Baltic from Leroy 1969
PressureBlackSeaSimplifiedLeroy Calculation of pressure in the Black Sea from Leroy 1969
PressureModifiedSimplifiedLeroy Calculation of pressure in water (Leroy modified) from Lovett 1978
PressureSimplifiedLeroy Calculation of pressure in water simplified from Leroy 1969
PressureToDepthLeroyParthiot Pressure To Depth from Leroy Parthiot 1998
PressureToDepthSaundersFofonoff Pressure To Depth from Saunders and Fofonoff 1976
ProjectorSensitivityPower Projector Sensitivity Power
ProjectorSensitivityVoltage Projector Sensitivity Voltage
PropagationLoss Propagation loss (PL)
RangeResolutionCHIRP Sonar Range Resolution CHIRP
RangeResolutionMonotonic Sonar Range Resolution for monotonic acoustic systems
SLdirectionalProjector SL of a directional projector
SLomnidirectionalProjector SL of an omnidirectional projector
SonarEquation sonar equation
SourceLevel source level (SL)
SourceLevelToAvoidCavitation source level to avoid cavitation
SpeedAlgorithmParameterRanges Data on Speed of Sound Algorithm Parameter Ranges
SpeedOfSound Speed of sound
SpeedOfSoundAir speed of sound in humid air at sea level air density and known atmospheric pressure
SpeedOfSoundDryAir Speed of sound in dry air at sea level air density and one atmosphere pressure
SpeedOfSoundFreshWaterGrossoMader speed of sound (m/s) in fresh water from Grosso and Mader
SpeedOfSoundHumidAir Speed of sound in Humid air at sea level air density and one atmosphere pressure
SpeedOfSoundKinslerEtal Speed of sound (m/s) from Kinsler et al
SpeedOfSoundPureWaterBelogolskiiSekoyanEtal speed of sound (m/s) from Belogolskii, Sekoyan et al
SpeedOfSoundPureWaterBilaniukWong112 speed of sound (m/s) from Bilaniuk and Wong 112 point equation
SpeedOfSoundPureWaterBilaniukWong148 speed of sound (m/s) from Bilaniuk and Wong 148 point equation
SpeedOfSoundPureWaterBilaniukWong36 speed of sound (m/s) from Bilaniuk and Wong 36 point equation
SpeedOfSoundPureWaterLubbersandGraaffSEa speed of sound (m/s) from Lubbers and Graaff's simplified equations a and b
SpeedOfSoundPureWaterLubbersandGraaffSEb speed of sound (m/s) from Lubbers and Graaff's simplified equations a and b
SpeedOfSoundPureWaterMarczak speed of sound (m/s) from Marczak
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterChenAndMillero speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Chen and Millero 1977
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterCoppens speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Coppens 1981
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterDelGrosso speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Del Grosso 1974
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterFryeAndPugh Calculation of speed of sound in sea water from Frye and Pugh 1971
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterLeroy68 speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Leroy 1968
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterLeroy69 speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Leroy 1969
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterLeroyEtAl2008 Calculation of speed of sound in sea water from Leroy et Al 2008
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterLovett1 Calculation of speed of sound in sea water from Lovett 1978
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterLovett2 Calculation of speed of sound in sea water from Lovett 1978b
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterLovett3 Calculation of speed of sound in sea water from Lovett 1978c
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterMackenzie speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Mackenzie 1981
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterMedwin speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Medwin 1975
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterSkone speed of sound (m/s) in sea water from Skone et al 2002
SpeedOfSoundSeaWaterWilson Calculation of speed of sound in sea water from Wilson 1960
TargetStrength Target Strength (TS)
TargetStrengthCircularPlateNormal target strength Circular Plate normal
TargetStrengthConvexSurface target strength Convex surface
TargetStrengthCylinderNormal target strength Cylinder normal
TargetStrengthCylinderThetaToNormal target strength Cylinder, theta to normal
TargetStrengthPlateAnyShape target strength Plate of any shape
TargetStrengthRectangularPlateNormal target strength Rectangular Plate normal
TargetStrengthRectangularPlateThetaToNormal target strength Rectangular Plate, theta to normal
TargetStrengthSphere target strength sphere
TransmitDirectivityIndex transmit directivity index