Spherical wave scattering by slender bodies.

The problem of the scattering of a spherical acoustic wave by rigid slender bodies of revolution is investigated theoretically from a formalism based on the matched asymptotic expansion method. It is an extension of a formulation that was originally derived for incident plane waves with the so-called slender-body approximation. Simple and practical formulas are obtained for the scattered pressure in the near- and far-fields: they are valid at low and medium frequencies when the reduced wavenumber Ka is less or of the order of unity. Computations of the monostatic and bistatic angular distributions for a spheroid are presented to illustrate the sensitivity of the scattered field with respect to the distance source and observation point.