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WAVES IN RANDOM AND COMPLEX MEDIA
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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17455030.2022.2053242
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Random media; statistical moments of the sound field; Markov approximation; atmospheric acoustics
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- United States (U.S.) Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) basic research program
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This article investigates the phase variance of sound waves in statistically inhomogeneous turbulence and highlights the discrepancies between the results obtained using the Markov approximation and experimental data.
The Markov approximation is widely used in wave propagation in random media. This approximation is valid if the propagation path length is greater than the scale of the medium inhomogeneities affecting a particular statistical moment of a wave field and the moment changes insignificantly over this scale. These conditions might be violated for the variance of the phase fluctuations and other statistical moments of acoustic signals that have propagated through atmospheric turbulence: the scale of the largest eddies can be hundreds of meters, and fluctuations in the acoustic refractive index are relatively strong. In the current article, the phase variance of a spherical sound wave in statistically inhomogeneous turbulence is formulated without the Markov approximation. For propagation ranges smaller than the scale of the largest eddies, the phase variance without the Markov approximation is significantly smaller than when this approximation is employed. As the range increases, the difference between the two results tends toward a constant value (a 'memory' effect), which might be significant in many applications. The phase variance without the Markov approximation agrees better with the experimental data on sound propagation through the atmosphere, while the variance calculated with this approximation significantly overpredicts the data.
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