Determination of the coefficients of an elastic seabed

Abstract

An algorithm is described for finding the parameters of a one-layer elastic seabed which is based upon the Nelder-Mead simplex method for minimizing a function. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated by testing it on a set of twelve sediments encompassing a wide range of values of the seabed parameters.

Keywords:

• Undetermined coefficients
• elastic seabed
• inverse problems

^*Supported in part by a US. Naval Academy Fiecognition Grant.

^†This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grant BES-9402539.

^*Supported in part by a US. Naval Academy Fiecognition Grant.

^†This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grant BES-9402539.

Notes

^*Supported in part by a US. Naval Academy Fiecognition Grant.

^†This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through grant BES-9402539.