Numerical Simulation of the Effects of Bathymetry on Underwater Sound Propagation Using Three-Dimensional Parabolic Models

Abstract

Two different three-dimensional parabolic equation (PE) methods are presented. These methods are used to show the importance of three-dimensional effects for some examples and different frequencies and the results from the two methods are compared with each other in order to show that the two very different PE approaches give similar results. The methods of this report provide an accurate and relatively efficient means of computing three-dimensional propagation loss which will form the basis of future improvements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1998
Accession Number
AD1113321

Entities

People

  • Federic B. Sturm
  • John A. Fawcett

Organizations

  • SACLANT ASW Research Centre

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Computations
  • Diffraction
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Grazing Angles
  • Helmholtz Equations
  • Nato
  • Phase Velocity
  • Plane Geometry
  • Reflection
  • Refraction
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Stability Conditions
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Underwater Sound
  • Wave Equations
  • Wide Angles

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)