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Ref.: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, No.2, pp.709-717, August 2012.
Abstract:
Acoustic predictions of the recently developed TRACEO ray model,
which accounts for bottom shear properties,
are benchmarked against tank experimental data from the EPEE-1 and EPEE-2 experiments.
Both experiments are representative of signal propagation in a Pekeris-like shallow-water waveguide
over a non-flat isotropic elastic bottom,
where significant interaction of the signal with the bottom can be expected.
The benchmarks show, in particular,
that the ray model can be as accurate as a parabolic approximation model benchmarked in similar conditions.
The results of benchmarking are important, on one side,
as a preliminary experimental validation of the model and, on the other side,
demonstrates the reliability of the ray approach for seismo-acoustic applications.