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We obtain in integral and analytic form the relations for calculating the amplitude and phase characteristics of an interference structure of orthogonal projections of the oscillation velocity vector in shallow water. For different frequencies and receiver depths, we numerically study the source depth dependences of the effective phase velocities of an equivalent plane wave, the orthogonal projections of the sound pressure phase gradient, and the projections of the oscillation velocity vector. We establish that at low frequencies in zones of interference maxima, independently of source depth, weakly varying effective phase velocity values are observed, which exceed the sound velocity in water by 5–12%. We show that the angles of arrival of the equivalent plane wave and the oscillation velocity vector in the general case differ; however, they virtually coincide in the zone of the interference maximum of the sound pressure under the condition that the horizontal projections of the oscillation velocity appreciably exceed the value of the vertical projection. We give recommendations on using the sound field characteristics in zones with maximum values for solving rangefinding and signal-detection problems.
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Original Russian Text © G.N. Kuznetsov, O.V. Lebedev, A.N. Stepanov, 2016, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2016, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 699–711.
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Kuznetsov, G.N., Lebedev, O.V. & Stepanov, A.N. Vertical amplitude phase structure of a low-frequency acoustic field in shallow water. Acoust. Phys. 62, 717–728 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771016050092
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