Geodesic
Wave chaos in underwater acoustics
Žurnal Sibirskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. Matematika i fizika, Tome 3 (2010) no. 3, pp. 336-348

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The problem of long-range sound propagation in an oceanic waveguide is considered. Even a weak range-dependent sound-speed perturbation is sufficient to cause chaotic dynamics in the ray limit. In the real ocean, an important role in the ray instability is played by small-scale depth oscillations of the sound-speed perturbation. Those small-scale oscillations should violate ray-wave correspondence. We carry out a comparative analysis of ray- and wave-based patterns in phase space and track how their discrepancies grow with decreasing the depth scale of a sound-speed perturbation. It is shown that the semiclassical theory can reproduce qualitative peculiarities of wave behavior even with small perturbation's scales. A strong conflict occurs only with very low acoustic frequencies.
Keywords: ray chaos, wave chaos, quantum chaos, long-range sound propagation, periodic orbits. 
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Denis V. Makarov; Leonid E. Kon'kov; Michael Yu. Uleysky. Wave chaos in underwater acoustics. Žurnal Sibirskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. Matematika i fizika, Tome 3 (2010) no. 3, pp. 336-348. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/JSFU_2010_3_3_a7/