Underwater Acoustics Modelling and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Noise is defined as unwanted sound (acoustics) and underwater noise pollution is gradually being recognized as a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems. Underwater noise pollution refers to human-generated noise that contaminates our oceans and their habitats, e.g., many marine mammals and corals. There are four main sources of underwater noise, seismic air gun noise from oil and gas exploration, shipping traffic noise, low-frequency and the mid-frequency sonar ‘sounds’ used extensively in submarine detection, and explosive noise.

Modelling is a powerful technique for humans to represent a real-world object or phenomenon and the mental model, the graphical model and the mathematical model are three popular models. Generally, there are two predominant approaches to build a model, the theoretical approach that derives equations from physics and the experimental approach that derives equations from input/output measured data.

Control is a way to amend the system’s performance through adding functional components and acoustical control can be implemented at three points, at the acoustic source, during the propagation path, and in the acoustic receiver.

This Special Issue will collect the latest high-quality original manuscripts within the research field of underwater noise modelling and control. Authors are invited to present new modelling and control techniques, algorithms, and experimental tests. All original papers related to modelling and control techniques for underwater noise are welcome. Both original research and review articles are all encouraged.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Underwater acoustics instrument
• The application of unmanned vehicle in underwater acoustics measurement
• Underwater wave propagation
• Underwater noise modelling
• Underwater acoustic communication
• Sonar system
• System identification
• Adaptive underwater noise control
• Intelligent systems
• Optimization algorithms
• Underwater acoustic sensor networks

Dr. Tongrui Peng
Prof. Dr. M. Osman Tokhi
Prof. Dr. Li Ma
Dr. Lingzhong Guo
Guest Editors

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