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Angular deflection and the formation of a line caustic are examined for acoustic rays passing through a cylindrical vortex with a viscous core. Ray paths are displayed in normalized form and appear to be applicable to the aircraft-wake problem as well as to long-distance sound propagation through synoptic weather features.
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T. M. Georges (1972) studied this question.
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