MIT Center for Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Acoustics Group

Henrik Schmidt Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering

Director of the Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems

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Proposed program to assimilate oceanographic and acoustic data into acoustic and oceanographic models to obtain nowcasts and forecasts of the ocean environment.

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Teaching

• 13.863 Ocean Seismo-Acoustics

• 2.012J (13.014) Mechanics of Structures (formerly Marine Structures and Materials)

• 2.993J (10.002J/13.002J) Introduction to Numerical Analysis for Engineering

• 2.068 (13.853) Computational Waveguide Acoustics

• 2.067 (13.811) Submarine Structural Acoustics (formerly Advanced Structural Dynamics and Acoustics)

• 2.001 Mechanics and Materials I

• 2.29 Numerical Fluid Mechanics

Recent Publications (Since 1999)

• H. Schmidt and J. Lee, Physics of 3-D scattering from rippled seabeds and buried targets in shallow water, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 105(3), 1605-1617, 1999.
• Tracey, B. and Schmidt, H., A self-consistent theory for seabed volume scattering, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106(5), 2524-2534, 1999.
• Maguer, A., Bovio, E., Fox, W.L., Pouliquen, E., and Schmidt, H., Mechanisms for subcritical penetration into a sandy bottom: Experimental and modeling results, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 107(3), 1215, 2000.
• Maguer, A., E. Bovio, W.L Fox, and H. Schmidt. In situ estimation of sediment sound speed and critical angle, J. Acoust. Soc. Am J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108 (3) Pt.1, 987-996, Sept. 2000.
• K. Lepage and H. Schmidt. Spectral integral representations of volume scattering in sediments in layered waveguides, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108(4), 1557-1567, October 2000.
• M. D. Collins, H. Schmidt, and W. L. Siegmann, An Energy-Conserving Spectral Solution, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107(4), 1964-1966 (2000).
• J. R. Edwards, H. Schmidt and K. LePage, Bistatic synthetic aperture target detection and imaging with an AUV. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 26(4), 690-699, 2001.
• LePage, K., Schmidt, H., Bistatic synthetic aperture imaging of proud and buried targets from an AUV. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 27(3), 471-483, 2002.
• Tesei, A., Lim, R., Maguer, A., Fox, W.L.J., Schmidt, H., Measurements of acoustic scattering from partially and completely buried spherical shells. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 112(5), 1817-1830, 2002.
• Elisseeff, P., Schmidt, H., Xu, W., Ocean acoustic tomography as a data assimilation problem. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 2, 275-282, April 2002.
• LePage, K., Schmidt, H., Spectral integral representations of monostatic backscattering from three-dimensional distributions of sediment volume inhomogeneities. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 113(2), 789-799, 2003.
• Xu, W., Schmidt, H., System-orthogonal functions for sound velocity profile perturbation. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 1, 156-169, January 2006.
• M. Montanari, J.R. Edwards, and H. Schmidt, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-based Concurrent Detection and Classification Concept Using Higher-order Spectral Analysis, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 1, 188-199, January 2006.
• Xu, W., Baggeroer, A.B., Schmidt, H., Performance Analyisis for Matched-Field Source Localization: Simulations and Experimental Results, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 2, 325-344, April 2006.
• D.P. Eickstedt, M.R. Benjamin, J.P. Ianniello, H. Schmidt, and J.J. Leonard, Adaptive Tracking of Underwater Targets with Autonomous Sensor Networks, (Unclassified) JUA (USN) 56, 465-495 (2006) (Secret NoForn).
• Lucifredi, I., Schmidt, H., Subcritical scattering from buried elastic shells, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120(6), 3566-3583, December 2006.