High-frequency numerical-analytic approximations for the separable acoustic wave equation

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(86)90051-3MaRDI QIDQ1079076zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. P. Forney, R. F. Henrick, James R. Brannan

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(86)90051-3

zbMATH Keywords

analytical asymptotic approximationsboundary conditionseigenfunctionseigenvaluesError criteriaHelmholtz equationhigh frequency rangejoint numeric-asymptotic approachneighborhoods of turning points of the index of refraction profileseparable wave equationunderwater acoustic propagationWKB method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

Review text

A joint numeric-asymptotic (WKB) approach in high frequency range is proposed for solving the separable wave equation in the context of underwater acoustic propagation. The concept of WKB is to use analytical asymptotic approximations (as in physical optics) to get the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Helmholtz equation under given boundary conditions wherever they are valid approximations. The numeric approach is limited to be used in the neighborhoods of turning points of the index of refraction profile. Error criteria for switch between methods are derived. The advantage of this WKB method is reducing of computing time by over an order of magnitude than conventional numeric method in that frequency range.

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