Normal Modes

aw: A Matlab code for computing normal modes based on Chebyshev approximations
(M. Dzieciuch/Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

Couple: a coupled normal-mode code
(R. Evans/Research Prof.,Dept. Math. Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) (updated 13 December 2007)

 KRAKEN normal mode program

• Report (includes an extensive discussion of the theory of normal modes).

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• Source code (in Acoustics Toolbox) (M. Porter)

(updated 21 May 2008 - now includes range-dependent SSP)

• Krak_mat: A Matlab version of KRAKEN
• KrakenZ: This version uses a new root finder based on winding number integrals that is much more robust.
  (P. Cristini/CNRS-Laboratoire de Mécanique ed d'Acoustique, France)

MOATL MOdal Acoustic Transmission Loss program
(F. Ingenito, S. Wolf, J. Miller/Naval Research Laboratory)

Nlayer Pedersen-Gordon underwater sound propagation-loss program
(Org. Naval Ocean Systems Center; PC version M. Hall/Defence Science and Technology Organization, Australia)

WKBZ: Based on a uniform WKB approximation to the modes
(R. Zhang, National Laboratory of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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