Sphere target strength calculator
The sphereTS package calculates the acoustic target strength (TS) of elastic spheres immersed in a fluid. It is intended for calculating the TS of the spheres used for calibrating echosounders used for quantitative estimates of marine organism backscatter.
Install from pypi:
pip install spherets
and run the GUI from a terminal (type spherets) to get the main window:
TS values are shown in a separate window:
The underlying target strength functions are also available, for example:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sphereTS import sphere_ts as sts
wc = sts.material_properties()['Tungsten carbide']
c = 1470 # [m/s] sound speed in water
rho = 1027 # [kg/m^3] density of water
a = 0.0381/2 # [m] radius of sphere
ts = sts.sphere_ts(38e3, a, c, wc['c1'], wc['c2'], rho, wc['rho1'])
print(ts)
f, tsf = sts.freq_response(12e3, 200e3, a, c,
wc['c1'], wc['c2'], rho, wc['rho1'])
plt.plot(f/1e3, tsf)
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