3rd Edition

Acoustics in Moving Inhomogeneous Media

By Vladimir E Ostashev, D Keith Wilson Copyright 2026
610 Pages 10 Color & 113 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

610 Pages 10 Color & 113 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

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, aeroacoustics, acoustics of turbulent flows, remote sensing of the atmosphere and ocean, noise pollution in the atmosphere, and wave propagation. The book begins by... Read more

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. Wave theory of sound propagation in a stratified moving medium

5. Moving sound sources and receivers

Part II. Sound propagation in random moving media

6. Random inhomogeneities in a moving medium

7. Line-of-sight sound propagation in a random moving medium

8. Multipath sound propagation in a random moving medium

9. Single and multiple scattering in a random moving medium

10. Statistical 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

Biography

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.