A Modal Intensity Distribution Estimation Algorithm Based on Horizontal Circular Array

Abstract

In shallow-water waveguide, the normal mode information of acoustic signals plays an important role in localization research. In this paper, an extraction algorithm of modal intensity distribution based on horizontal circular array is proposed. By using the horizontal wavenumber of each mode, the modal domain beamforming is used to estimate the modal intensity distribution of the acoustic signal. The theoretical derivation, data simulation and experimental data are used to verify the feasibility of the algorithm based on circular array and the superiority compared with the line array extraction algorithm. At the last part of the paper, an application based on modal intensity distribution is proposed: water surface interference suppression, and the effectiveness of the interference suppression algorithm is verified from theoretical derivation and simulation experiments.