Nonlinear sound generation by high energy particles. [Debye-like modes, temperature dependence, proton deposition mechanism]
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In connection with Project DUMAND, the proposal to utilize the ocean as a giant acoustic detector of neutrinos, the applicability of a recent theory of thermoacoustic arrays (Peter J. Westervelt and Richard S. Larson, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 54, 121 (1973)) is studied. In the static case or at very low frequencies, about 10% of the coefficient of thermal expansion for water at 20/sup 0/C can be attributed to Debye-like modes. Debye-like modes generate sound via the nonlinear mechanism responsible f…
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Date:
January 1, 1978
Creator:
Westervelt, P. J.
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