Ray-based methods in PC SWAT

Abstract

The Personal Computer Shallow Water Acoustic Toolset (PC SWAT), developed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD), is a ray-based simulator capable of running multiple types of sonar simulation scenarios. Recent PC SWAT capability enhancements, such as arbitrarily shaped targets, target occlusion by sea bottom features, and parallelization efforts, will be discussed. These improvements foster greater physical accuracy and fidelity for target scattering simulations. [Work supported by the Office of Naval Research.]