Improved design of spherical multimode hydrophone

Abstract

An improved design is made for a spherical multimode hydrophone by dividing each hemisphere into two zones and selecting the position of the line of division between them, so that the resonances associated with higher modes of the spherical shell vibrations, specifically n=3 and n=5 modes in the present case, are eliminated. The elimination of these resonances has led to the provision of a frequency-independent dipole pattern over a wide range of frequencies. The present theory includes the effect of spherical shell bending, since it is important at higher modes. Accordingly, the resonant frequencies are clearly identified by the associated mode numbers. In both theory and experiment, these resonant effects were eliminated by employing the newly designed hydrophone.