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The paper studies the patterns manifesting themselves in the formation and propagation of caustic and weakly diverging beams using the geometric acoustic approximation and mode theory applied to the simplest model of an underwater sound channel open to the bottom in the form of the bilinear dependence of the square of the refractive index on depth. It is established that when a vertical array emitting a tonal sound signal is located at a certain critical depth, the multimode caustic beam which forms near the reference ray horizontally departing from its center and which predominates in intensity is simultaneously the most weakly diverging beam. It is shown that the reference ray of such a weakly diverging caustic beam corresponds to the smoothest minimum for the dependence of the length of the ray cycle on their angle of departure from the center of the array and to the depth level of revolution at the critical depth characteristic of the given oceanic waveguide.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Petukhov, V.G. Burdukovskaya, E.L. Borodina, 2017, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2017, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 59–72.
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Petukhov, Y.V., Burdukovskaya, V.G. & Borodina, E.L. Formation of a weakly diverging caustic beam in an underwater sound channel open to the bottom. Acoust. Phys. 63, 63–75 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771016060142
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