Supporting Validation and Further Development of the MASTODON Model
Abstract
The proposed project is a continuation of the work that HLS Research has performed in collaboration with NSWC in the development ofthe MASTODON project. The MASTODON project is a significant effort whose objective is to provide the Navy with a wide range of modeling capabilities including those for propagation, scattering from rough surfaces, buried targets, and ensemble of scatterers like schools of fish and bubble clouds. During MASTODON#s development, HLS Research has had the task of developing, validating, and implementing new computational models; and improving and expanding its current models to satisfy the diverse needs of its stakeholders, while also maintaining speed and accuracy. During its collaborations with NSWC so far, HLS Research has perused a two-pronged effort: 1) developing numerically exact solutions for benchmarking purposes and 2) developing and benchmarking approximate models for implementation into MASTODON. The rationale behind using approximate models for implementation into MASTODON has largely been driven by the desire to reduce numerical complexity. Since during this project a considerable amount effort has been put into developing numerically exact models for benchmarking purposes, in this phase of the project, in addition to continuing the development, validation and implementation of approximate models, we propose to also make numerically exact models available in MASTODON to give users a choice of using more accurate models. For this reason, we plan to engage more interactively with NSWC in the implementation of thesemodels. We will also discuss with NSWC ways to make supporting software needed for these models available to MASTODON.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 08, 2024
- Source ID
- N000142412385
Entities
People
- Ahmad Abawi
Organizations
- HLS Research (United States)
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy