NUMERICAL OCEAN ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION IN THREE DIMENSIONS

This book introduces a comprehensive mathematicalformulation of the three-dimensional ocean acoustic propagationproblem by means of functional and operator splitting techniques inconjunction with rational function approximations. It presents variousnumerical solutions of the model equation such as finite difference,alternating direction and preconditioning. The detailed analysis ofthe concept of 3D, N x 2D and 2D problems is very useful not onlymathematically and physically, but also computationally. The inclusionof a complete detailed listing of proven computer codes which havebeen in use by a number of universities and research organizationsworldwide makes this book a valuable reference source. Advancedknowledge of numerical methods, applied mathematics and oceanacoustics is not required to understand this book. It is orientedtoward graduate students and research scientists to use for researchand application purposes.