RAY SHOOTING, EIGENRAY SEARCH, AND COMPLEX RESONANCES FOR SUBMERGED STRUCTURES

The general theory of a ray-mode approach for time-harmonic responses and a wavefront-resonant approach for transient responses of submerged structures [I-T. Lu, J. Acoust. Sec. Am. 99, 114-132 (1996)] is appli ed to a prototype structure consisting of a cylindrical pipe, hemisphe rical endcaps, a bulkhead, and a rib. The acoustic scattering returns are synthesized systematically in terms of angular spectra of surface modes of the structural elements where bookkeeping of various spectral objects such as ray, collective ray, modes, ray mode, resonance, etc. can be maintained. Ray shooting and eigenray searching procedures for the guided modes of structural elements are derived. An approximate s olution for the resonances of the global submerged structure is also o btained. Numerical examples of typical ray trajectories of these guide d modes, travel times of wavefronts,and complex frequencies of resonan ces are presented. (C) 1997 Acoustical Society of America.