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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 147, Issue 6, Pages 3969-3984Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/10.0001397
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- U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Geospatial Research and Engineering, and Military Engineering business areas
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The narrow-angle parabolic equation (NAPE) with the effective sound speed approximation (ESSA) is widely used for sound and infrasound propagation in a moving medium such as the atmosphere. However, it is valid only for angles less than 20 degrees with respect to the nominal propagation direction. In this paper, the wave equation and extra-wide-angle parabolic equation (EWAPE) for high-frequency (short-wavelength) sound waves in a moving medium with arbitrary Mach numbers are derived without the ESSA. For relatively smooth variations in the medium velocity, the EWAPE is valid for propagation angles up to 90 degrees. Using the Pade (n,n) series expansion and narrow-angle approximation, the EWAPE is reduced to the wide-angle parabolic equation (WAPE) and NAPE. Versions of these equations are then formulated for low Mach numbers, which is the case that is usually considered in the literature. The phase errors pertinent to the equations considered are studied. It is shown that the equations for low Mach numbers and the WAPE with the ESSA are applicable only under rather restrictive conditions on the medium velocity. An effective numerical implementation of the WAPE for arbitrary Mach numbers in the Pade (1,1) approximation is developed and applied to sound propagation in the atmosphere.
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