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Using approximate analytical calculations based on the WKB and adiabatic approximations for the mode representation of the field, as well as numerical simulation based on the theory of adiabatic modes, geometric acoustic approximation, and the parabolic equation method, the patterns of the formation and propagation of caustic and weakly diverging acoustic beams in a horizontally inhomogeneous refractive oceanic waveguide are studied. The horizontal distance regions are determined at which the dependences of the acoustic field intensity on the horizontal distance typical of caustic and weakly diverging beams are retained. The study considers the processes involved in reformation of caustic and weakly diverging beams in an oceanic waveguide with increasing water layer depth and constant sound speed profile, which near the source characterized an underwater sound channel open toward the bottom. The conditions are formulated for an effectively matched transition of shallow-water waveguide modes refracted in the thermocline and interacting with the bottom to purely refracted modes of the underwater sound channel in a relatively deep water part of the oceanic waveguide.
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Petukhov, Y.V., Burdukovskaya, V.G. & Borodina, E.L. Caustic and Weakly Diverging Beams in Horizontally Inhomogeneous Oceanic Waveguides. Acoust. Phys. 66, 162–177 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771020020062
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