Mathematics – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
2011-10-15
Mathematics
Numerical Analysis
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Scientific paper
We consider the third-order wide-angle `parabolic' equation of underwater acoustics in a cylindrically symmetric fluid medium over a bottom of range-dependent bathymetry. It is known that the initial-boundary-value problem for this equation may not be well posed in the case of (smooth) bottom profiles of arbitrary shape if it is just posed e.g. with a homogeneous Dirichlet bottom boundary condition. In this paper we concentrate on downsloping bottom profiles and propose an additional boundary condition that yields a well posed problem, in fact making it $L^2$-conservative in the case of appropriate real parameters. We solve the problem numerically by a Crank-Nicolson-type finite difference scheme, which is proved to be unconditionally stable and second-order accurate, and simulates accurately realistic underwater acoustic problems.
Antonopoulou D. C.
Dougalis V. A.
Zouraris Georgios E.
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