PROSIM Broadband Normal-Mode Model, a Users' Guide

Abstract

Sound propagation in the ocean can be described, in principle, by numerically solving the acoustic wave equation. Although simply stated, the computer implementation is generally difficult due to the complexity of the ocean-acoustic environment. In the last decades a variety of numerical techniques have been developed for computing sound fields in the ocean. Many of the existing ocean-acoustic numerical propagation models are highly sophisticated and take several hours to run on fast workstations or are very fast but not sufficiently accurate for scientific applications. Thus the development of a broadband (10 Hz - 10 kHz) acoustic propagation model requires special attention to accuracy, robustness and efficiency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2000
Accession Number
AD1113812

Entities

People

  • Finn B. Jensen
  • Francesco Bini-verona
  • Peter L. Nielsen

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Bandwidth
  • Broadband
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Geometry
  • Operating Systems
  • Shallow Water
  • Simulators
  • Transfer Functions
  • Transmission Loss
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.