Presidential Young Investigator Award

该基金的主要研究领域是粗糙表面的波散射，重点是粗糙表面散射模型的数值研究，目的是建立一个准确预测声波散射的表面散射模型。首先是海洋表面，然后是海底。最终，我们需要的是一个模型，它将适用于最一般类型的边界条件，并可用于电磁波、声波和光波。这是一个非常困难的问题，研究人员已经研究了几十年。只有随着最近高速计算机和工作站的引入，解决方案才变得可行。重点研究了船舶尾迹的检测、波高和波向的估计等问题。共同调查人员将包括一名物理海洋学家、一名信号处理员、一名流体动力学家、一名流体实验家和一名声学家。一名表面散射建模师，目前正在寻找一名遥感实验员和一名图像处理器来填补电气工程系的职位。

The major area of research of this grant is wave scattering from rough surfaces with emphasis on numerical studies of rough surface scattering models with the objective of developing a surface scattering model that accurately predicts acoustic wave scattering, first from the ocean surface and later from the ocean bottom. Ultimately, what is needed is a model that will work for the most general type of boundary condition and that can be used for electromagnetic waves as well as acoustic and optical waves. This is a very difficult problem which researchers have been working on for decades. It is only with the recent introduction of high-speed computers and workstations that a solution has become practicable. In particular investigation into such problems as the detection of ship wakes and the estimation of wave height and direction will be carried out. Co- investigators will include a physical oceanographer, a signal processor, a fluid dynamicist, a fluid experimentalist, and acoustician, a surface scattering modeler and are currently searching for a remote sensing experimentalist and an image processor to fill positions in the electrical engineering department.