O.C. Rodríguez, orodrig(at)ualg.pt
LARSyS, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, PT-8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
F. Sturm,
Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France.
M.B. Porter,
HLS Research Inc., La Jolla, California, United States.
and
P.S. Petrov,
V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok, Russian Federation.
Comments: download pdf.
Ref.: 173rd Meeting of the ASA, Boston, MA, USA, June
2017.
Abstract:
Cross-slope wedge propagation is considered for the three-dimensional benchmarking of three
underwater acoustic models, one based on normal mode theory and the other two based on ray
tracing. To this end the benchmarking relies on analytic solutions for adiabatic and
non-adiabatic propagation, as well as on experimental data from a scale tank experiment
(a previous benchmarking with a parabolic equation model is known to provide extremely
accurate predictions in all cases). The benchmarking allows to identify the advantages,
accuracy and limitations of the considered models.