A new method for acoustic ray tracing

Author

Zielinski, A. ; Geng, X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Sep 1994

Abstract

The paper describes a new method for acoustic ray tracing. The method is based on the concept of a travelling wavefront, which leads to a new formulation and a simple algorithm for ray tracing. The approach is suitable for arbitrary sound speed profiles which can be approximated by differentiable functions. It does not require linearisation and is particularly convenient for computer simulations. It can be easily generalized to include range-dependent cases in which the sound speed profiles change with the horizontal distance. Several examples are presented to illustrate the usefulness or the method and to assess its accuracy

Keywords

acoustic wave propagation; oceanography; ray tracing; underwater sound; acoustic ray tracing; algorithm; differentiable functions; horizontal distance; range-dependent cases; sound speed profiles; travelling wavefront; Acoustic applications; Acoustic beams; Acoustic propagation; Delay estimation; Differential equations; Intrusion detection; Navigation; Partial differential equations; Ray tracing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '94. 'Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation.' Proceedings

Conference_Location

Brest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2056-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1994.364195

Filename

364195