This book presents a concise description of the acoustics of ocean sediment acoustics
including the latest developments that address the discrepancies between theoretical models and
experimental measurements. This work should be of interest to ocean acoustic engineers and
physicists as well as graduate students and course instructors. The seabed is neither a liquid
nor a solid but a fluid saturated porous material that obeys the wave equations of a
poroelastic medium which are significantly more complicated than the equations of either a
liquid or a solid. This volume presents a model of seabed acoustics with input parameters that
allow the model to cover a wide range of sediment types. The author includes example reflection
and transmission curves which may be used as typical for a range of sediment types. The
contents of this book will allow the reader to understand the physical processes involved in
the reflection propagation and attenuation of sound and shear waves in ocean sediments and to
model the acoustic properties for a wide range of applications.
