Ray stability in weakly range-dependent sound channels

Ray stability in weakly range-dependent sound channels.

Ray stability is investigated in environments consisting of a range-independent background sound-speed profile on which a range-dependent perturbation is superimposed. Theoretical arguments suggest and numerical results confirm that ray stability is strongly influenced by the background sound speed profile. Ray instability is shown to increase with increasing magnitude of alpha(I)=(I/omega)d om...

Acoustic Ray Stability for Long-Range Sound Speed Profile Transition Scenarios

Range-dependency in the background sound speed structure for deep ocean propagation scenarios is typical. Here a special case is considered when there is a gradual transition between single and double minimum sound speed profiles. Ray stability, an important measure for many applications, is analyzed. It is done by studying the unperturbed autonomous ray equations in the quasistatic limit. The ...

Ray-based blind deconvolution in ocean sound channels.

This letter describes a ray-based blind deconvolution technique for ocean sound channels that produces broadband estimates of the source-to-array impulse response and the original source waveform from array-measured signals corrupted by (unknown) multipath propagation. The technique merely requires elementary knowledge of array geometry and sound speed at the array location. It is based on iden...

Critical stability number in rock lined channels

Coupled-mode sound propagation in a range-dependent, moving fluid.

Full-field acoustic methods for current velocity inversion require accurate and efficient mathematical models of sound propagation in a range-dependent waveguide with flow. In this paper, an exact coupled-mode representation of the acoustic field is derived. To account for the physics of the problem, normal modes in a corresponding range-independent waveguide are chosen as the local basis. In t...