The Translational Velocity of Surface Ships and Submarines: a Computer Program

Abstract

The paper describes a computer program written in FORTRAN IV which calculates the peak or maximum translational velocity induced in both submerged and floating targets by an underwater explosion plane shock wave of arbitrary pulse shape. The targets,surface ships and submarines, are approximated by an infinitely long cylinder of a specified radius. The theory, which was developed for submarines, is described briefly and extended to floating targets. As the program was originally written to handle pulse shapes produced by reflections from the ocean bottom, it has the capability of using pulse shapes which may have a logarithmic singularity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 07, 1971
Accession Number
AD0725495

Entities

People

  • James R. Britt

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymptotic Series
  • Classification
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Equations
  • Explosions
  • Gaussian Quadrature
  • Interpolation
  • Munitions
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Reflection
  • Security
  • Submarines
  • Underwater Explosions
  • Waves
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Computer Science.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics