title: Impulse backscattering in granular beds: introducing a toy model.
abstract: Impulses efficiently propagate into nominally dry granular beds and backscatter from buried inclusions in such beds may be potentially exploited to image shallow buried objects (SBOs). However, reliable imaging of SBOs requires "cleaning up" of surface vibrations, and, in addition to three-dimensional (3D) particle dynamics simulations, a phenomenological model to parametrize the bed surface may be useful for field applications. We introduce a 1D mean-field-like toy model with two parameters, which allows one to model surface vibrations, is consistent with experiments in a granular bed, and can help estimate the approximate signal transmission properties of the bed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, State University of New York, Buffalo 14260-1500, USA. kmohan@buffalo.edu
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Krishna Mohan
authors.forename: Surajit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sen