Acoustic Transmission Loss by Single-Profile Ray Tracing (Program RTRACE).

Abstract

A program called RTRACE for the calculation of underwater acoustic transmission loss by ray tracing and summation has been written for NRL's CDC-3800 computer. RTRACE uses a single-profile, flat-bottom model of the medium with an inverse quadratic function of depth to interpolate in the sound-speed profile. Random- or coherent-phase intensities may be calculated and results may be printed or plotted, along with detailed ray histories and a ray trajectory plot.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 23, 1974
Accession Number
ADA003908

Entities

People

  • Evan B. Wright

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Intensity
  • Losses
  • Ray Tracing
  • Trajectories
  • Transmission Loss

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.