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In Chap. 3 we have considered the reflection of plane waves from the surface and bottom of the ocean. But in real situations, a sound source is usually located at a finite distance from boundaries of the medium. In acoustics the simplest source is a pulsating sphere of small radius (a “point” source). We are thus led to the problem of a field of a point omnidirectional source located at a finite distance from a plane interface between two media, i.e. to the problem of reflection of a spherical wave — the topic of this chapter.
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Brekhovskikh, L.M., Lysanov, Y.P. (1991). Reflection of Sound from the Surface and Bottom of the Ocean. Point Source. In: Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07328-5_4
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