Acoustic Shooting and Bounce Ray Method for Calculating Echoes of Complex Underwater Targets

Abstract

The acoustic scattering characteristics of a target are of great significance to the design of underwater acoustic detection systems. With the improvement in underwater weapon detection ability, the precision and accuracy of underwater target echo characteristic simulations are required to be higher and higher. The traditional underwater target simulation based on bright spot can no longer meet the needs of an underwater acoustic detection system for targeting fine feature recognition. This paper proposes a calculation using the fine complex underwater target echo bounce beam line method, in addition to the establishment of a bandwidth signal time domain calculation model and the integral dimension reduction to accelerate the algorithm on the basis of thorough target subspace division, combined with the geometrical acoustics method (GA) and physical acoustics (PA) for the pipeline space beam propagation tracking and aperture sound field to solve and realize the acoustic scattering characteristic calculation of a complex underwater target. Finally, the proposed method was verified by the Benchmark standard submarine. The accuracy and computational efficiency of the PA acceleration method are given, and the integrity of the target information calculated by the method is verified by acoustic ISAR imaging analysis. The simulation results show that the pipeline method of bouncing an acoustic beam is suitable for the simulation of complex underwater, target-wide band fine echoes.

Keywords

• acoustic scattering characteristics of complex targets
• acoustic shooting and bounce ray method
• target wide band fine echo simulation