Adaptation of an acoustic propagation model to the parallel architecture of a g...

• Author(s): Ey, Emanuel
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4990
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Underwater acoustics; Acoustic propagation modeling; High-performance computing; Open CL; Parallel computing
• Document Type: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Felisberto, P.

Description

High performance underwater acoustic models are of great importance for enabling real-time acoustic source tracking, geoacoustic inversion, environmental monitoring and high-frequency underwater communications. Given the parallelizable nature of raytracing, in general, and of the ray superposition algorithm in particular, use of multiple computing units for the development of real-time e cient applications based on ray tracing is becoming of extreme importance.