Minesweeping for Pressure Actuated Mines by Air Injection into a Water Column

Abstract

The U.S. Navy historically has not had an adequate means to remotely pressure-sweep for mines at reasonable speeds and cost, and this is still the case. The Navy has addressed such threats, but countermeasures are time consuming and considered to be very resource intensive. During this thesis two sets of data were collected in tow tank experiments using two different sizes of Bubble Squid apparatus. This thesis is a continuation of work already completed by Lieutenant Jeffery Murawski from December 2009. This continuation was able to extend the proof-of-concept with larger scale tow-tank testing at NPS. Further testing with the much larger three-meter Bubble Squid apparatus culminated in experiments conducted in March 2010 at the David Taylor Research Basin in Carderock, MD. The data that was collected and analyzed in this thesis will show that the Bubble Squid apparatus is a viable concept for solving the pressure influence minesweeping capability gap.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA552000

Entities

People

  • John I. Actkinson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Compressors
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Model Basins
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Pressure Signatures
  • Ship Model Basins
  • Standing Waves
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.