April 1987 VOLUME 12 NUMBER 2 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Scattering

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL AND OVERVIEW
Guillermo C. Gaunaurd Guest editorial and overview 313

INVITED AND CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Robert R. Weyker and Donald G. Dudley Identification of resonances of an acoustically rigid sphere 317
Ivan Tolstoy Properties of superresonant systems of spherical scatterers 327
Pieter S. Dubbelday and Kurt M. Rittenmyer Shear modulus effect on acoustically transparent materials 333
Timothy K. Stanton, Richard D. M. Nash, Robert L. Eastwood, and Redwood W. Nero A field examination of acoustical scattering from marine organisms at 70 kHz 339
Suzanne T. McDaniel Vertical spatial coherence of backscatter from bubbles 349
William C. Meecham and Wuu-Wen Lin Radiation reflected from random rough surfaces 357
Jonathan M. Berkson and Tuncay Akal Simultaneous reception of long-range low-frequency backscattered sound by a vertical and a horizontal array 362
Larry H. Green Acoustic resonance scattering by large-aspect-ratio solid targets 368
Michael F. Werby and Richard B. Evans Scattering from objects submerged in unbounded and bounded oceans 380
Guillermo C. Gaunaurd and Matthew F. McCarthy Resonances of elastic scatterers in fluid half-spaces 395
Allan D. Pierce Stationary variational expressions for radiated and scattered acoustic power and related quantities 404
Xiao-Feng Wu, Allan D. Pierce, and Jerry H. Ginsberg Variational method for computing surface acoustic pressure on vibrating bodies, applied to transversely oscillating disks 412
Guillermo C. Gaunaurd Techniques for sonar target identification 419
Andrew E. Yagle A layer-stripping fast algorithm for reconstructing an elastic medium from its compressional wave reflection response 423
Pradip M. Bakshi, Charles H. Bianchi, Subramaniam D. Rajan, and Kondagunta Sivaprasad A direct inversion scheme for computing the velocity profile from reflected data 433
Leopold B. Felsen Target strength: Some recent theoretical developments 443
Kazuhiro Hirasawa Reduction of radar cross section by multiple passive impedance loadings 453
Andrew F. Peterson and Raj Mittra Iterative-based computational methods for electromagnetic scattering from individual or periodic structures 458
Kent R. Davey and Hsiu Chi Han An integral eigenvalue approach to three-dimensional field problems--A low-frequency variation of SEM 466

LETTERS
Weldon Vlasak, William E. Woodward, and Gerald F. Appell Comments on "Current velocity measurements using acoustic doppler backscatter: A Review" 476

BOOK REVIEWS
Leon R. Warren The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 478