Facial characteristics of air gun array wavelets in the time and frequency domain under real conditions.

How to determine the wavelet of air gun source and how to improve the performance of air gun source have gradually become two important topics in the field of air gun. The existing performance evaluation system of air gun array can only evaluate the performance of air gun from a single point of view, and can not characterize the change of three-dimensional acoustic field produced by air gun array. We first use the Van der Waals air gun wavelet model to simulate the three-dimensional air gun spatial wave field under real conditions. The experimental and modeled data are in good agreement at different pressure amplitudes and frequencies. Then, based on the three-dimensional spatial acoustic field simulated by the model, we proposed a facial characteristics to evaluate the time domain and frequency domain characteristics of the three-dimensional acoustic field. In this air gun wavelet evaluation system, we extend the evaluation parameters such as zero peak, peak-to-peak amplitude, bubble period and main bubble ratio from single wavelet to acoustic field, from one dimension to three dimension. By introducing the instantaneous property of wavelet, we can observe the amplitude, phase and frequency of the far-field wavelet from different angles. The experimental results show that the proposed air gun wavelet evaluation system can evaluate the spatial wave field from any Angle with multiple parameters, and effectively guide the optimization of the structure of the air gun array. • The Van der Waals air gun source model predicts the broadband data reasonably well • The actual data of air gun acoustic field is in agreement with the predicted data • The acoustic field distribution is demonstrated with the 3-D facial patterns [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]