Pulsed acoustic field radiation in a laterally bounded layered fluid

The acoustic field radiation from an impulsive source located in a discretely layered and laterally bounded fluid is investigated with the aid of the generalized-ray theory. The main ingredient of the presented approach is the Cagniard–de Hoop technique in combination with the method of images that provide exact space–time expressions for the activated acoustic wavefield components. Illustrative numerical examples are presented.