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A NOVEL APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF COMBINED U.S. NAVAL BATTLE FORCES IS PROPOSED. A MODEL SYSTEM BASED UPON THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) AND THE USE OF PAIRWISE COMPARISON MATRICES IS USED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE VALUE OF COMPONENTS OF PROJECTING POWER IN THE WARFARE MISSION AREAS. THIS POWER MEASURE COMBINED ESTIMATES OF VULNERABILITY GENERATED IN A SIMILAR FASHION ARE THE ...

An ASTROS compatible computational strategy for evaluating the aeroelastic response, buckling and integrity of aircraft structures made of advanced laminated composite materials is proposed. The proposed computational strategy will be global/local in nature and as such will include the capability to analyze the global stress, vibration, buckling and aeroelastic response of aircraft structures mad ...

Commercial and military uses of RF/microwave anechoic chambers to conduct electromagnetic measurements of one type or another has increased considerably in recent years. unfortunately anechoic chambers can be very expensive to build ($0.5M for small chambers, to many $M for large chambers), and operate = man weeks of effort are often required to configure and run a chamber for a specific test. C ...

AeroSoft proposes the development of efficient and accurate Computational Fluid Dynamics methods for calculating the airflow characteristics over complex bodies with time-dependent, Reynolds-Averaged, Navier-Stokes equations which have been augmented to allow for dynamic meshes as well as non-equilibrium chemistry and thermodynamics. The dynamic-mesh approach proposed here is based on ...

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THE EFFICIENCY WITH WHICH ASSETS ARE ALLOCATED DURING COMBAT HAS USUALLY PLAYED A DOMINANT ROLE IN THE OUTCOME OF THE CONFLICT -OFTEN ECLIPSING ALL OTHER FACTORS, INCLUDING VARIANCES IN FORCE STRUCTURE. THE SOLUTION OF OPTIMAL ALLOCATION PROBLEMS IS NO LESS CRITICAL TO THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF C3I NETWORKS. THUS, THE ABILITY TO PERFORM THIS ENABLING TASK AS EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE IS VITAL. WE ...

CURRENT ATTEMPTS TO USE THE PLASMA OPENING SWITCH (POS) FOR DECADE HAVE NOT YET BEEN ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL DUE TO THE APPARENT INABILITY OF THE SWITCH TO OPEN EFFICIENTLY TO A HIGH-IMPEDENCE LOAD. RESEARCH DIRECTED TOWARD IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE POS IN THE LONG-CONDUCTION TIME REGIME HAS BEEN FRUSTRATED BY THE INABILITY OF COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO OPERATE IN THE PARAMETER REGIMES OF INTEREST ...

Currently, airbreathing propulsion systems which operate in the subsonic to high supersonic regime are expensive, complex and heavy. To overcome these limitations, a novel propulsion concept based on a liquid hydrocarbon-fueled Pulse Detonation Engine (PDE) is proposed. The innovation draws from recent successes in computational fluid dynamics and from several engineering studies and PDE develop ...

The opportunity addressed in this proposal is an innovative pulse detonation rocket engine (PDRE) which could significantly out-perform current state-of-the-art chemical rocket propulsion systems. The innovation is based in a novel combustion concept developed by Adroit Systems, Inc. (ASI) in the area of airbreathing pulse detonation propulsion. The concept relies on detonation combustion, as op ...

Phoenix Integration, Inc. proposes a 6 month design and feasibility study to investigate application of innovative software techniques toward an integrated program for the design and analysis of combat weapon subsystems. There is a recognized deficiency in the area of compatible ship design modules that allow weapon system concepts to be quickly configured and analyzed. A modeling and analysis to ...