PyWaveProp

• Radio wave propagation
  • Propagation in a standard atmosphere
  • Propagation in an elevated duct
  • Propagation over irregular terrain
  • Brewster angle incidence
  • Knife-edge in elevated duct
• Underwater acoustics
  • Propagation in shalow water
  • Propagation in deep water
  • Ultrasound propagation in thermocline
  • Ultrasound propagation in shallow pond
• Knife-edge diffraction
  • Single knife-edge diffraction
  • Double knife-edge diffraction
  • Diffraction on five knife-edges
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Key features

• Modelling the radio wave propagation over irregular terrain, tropospheric duct and vegetation
• Diffraction over the Earth’s surface
• Transparent boundaries modelling via the discrete nonlocal boundary conditions
• Arbitrary operational frequency and transmitting antenna patterns
• Automatic mesh generation
• Automatic artificial parameters fitting: approximation method and order, propagation constant, nonlocal boundary condition parameters, backscattering parameters, maximum propagation angle
• Arbitrary output result grid
• Higher-order discrete and semi-discrete propagator approximations: Padé approximation, rational interpolation, Numerov scheme, differential evolution method
• Discrete dispersion relation analysis
• Underwater acoustics: sound propagation over inhomogeneous sound speed profile and irregular bottom
• Multiple knife-edge diffraction problem solver
• Wavenumber integration method
• Python wrappers for PETOOL and RAM
• Greene and Claerbout approximations with linear shift map method
• Visualization of the wave fields

Acknowledgements

The library is supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant number 21-71-00039.

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