Silva, A.Rodríguez, O. C.Zabel, F.Huillery, J.Jesus, S. M.2014-09-222014-09-222010A. SILVA, O. C. RODRÍGUEZ, F. ZABEL, J. HUILLERY, S. M. JESUS, "Underwater Acoustic simulations with a time variable acoustic propagation model", in Proc. 10th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, 2010, IstanbulAUT: SJE00662; ASI00912; ORO00691;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/5040The Time Variable Acoustic Propagation Model (TV-APM) was developed to simulate underwater acoustic propagation in time-variable environments. Such environment variability induces a strong Doppler channel spread, which is an important factor to test and evaluate the performance of equalization algorithms. In current simulations, Doppler spread is usually included a posteriori in a stationary Acoustic Propagation Model (APM), and is designed for specific environmental parameters such as source-receiver range variability or surface motion. However, environmental variations affect Doppler spread in a complex manner, and an accurate TV-APM simulation for time varying channels, being performed at the same sampling rate as the transmitted signal, would require a large number of runs at high frequencies. A strategy in the current implementation of the TV-APM was developed to reduce the number of runs, while preserving the variable-channel Doppler spread. Simulations were done to draw a performance map for a given equalizer in a given environment and the results revealed that the TV-APM is a useful prediction tool of communication equalizers performance.engconference object