STUDY ON SINGLE-MODE EXCITATION IN TIME-VARIANT SHALLOW WATER ENVIRONMENT

Single-mode excitation is a powerful tool for studying many oceanographic processes. Meanwhile, the complex time-variant ocean environment poses a great challenge for single-mode excitation because Green's function matrix of sound field changes quickly. In their previous work, the authors built a system to excite single-mode in a relative simple environment. The purpose of this paper is to study the feasibility of single-mode excitation in rapidly time-variant ocean environment. An improved recursive algorithm is presented to adapt for time-variant environment where the single-mode can be excited within very short time by this algorithm. A typical time-variant shallow water environment is simulated, and results of the single-mode excitation in this environment are presented.