Large-Scale Laboratory Experiments of Incipient Motion, Transport, and Fate of Underwater Munitions under Waves, Currents, and Combined-Flows

Abstract

Our research project responds directly to MRSON-14-01 with an emphasis on the need to improve our understanding of the phenomenology of entrainment, transport and fate of underwater munitions. A recent white paper (SERDP 2010, p.4) identified several knowledge gaps in the predictive skill of munitions mobility models. Our research effort aligns to address these gaps in environments with hard bottom substrates. Ultimately, the fundamental work herein provides a critical data set and initiation of motion predictors to improve existing field scale models for munitions mobility (i.e., Underwater Munitions Expert System, UnMES; Rennie and Brandt, 2015) that are difficult or practically impossible to obtain with existing field measurements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 25, 2018
Accession Number
AD1055471

Entities

People

  • Blake J. Landry
  • Marcelo H. García

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Phenomena
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Munitions
  • Munitions Testing
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Unexploded Ammunition

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Theoretical Analysis.