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EDITOR: FREDERICK H. MALTZ Summer 2004 (USPS 420-910) ISSN 0746-7834 VOLUME XXXVIII NUMBER 3
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EDITOR: FREDERICK H. MALTZ Summer 2004 (USPS 420-910) ISSN 0746-7834
VOLUME XXXVIII NUMBER 3
IEEE OCEANIC ENGINEERING SOCIETYPresidentTHOMAS F. WIENER2403 Lisbon LaneAlexandria, VA 22306-2516+1 703 768 [email protected]
Newsletter EditorFREDERICK H. MALTZ821 Runningwood CircleMountain View, CA 94040+1 650 967 5092+1 650 969 9390 (FAX)[email protected]
Vice PresidentTechnical ActivitiesSTANLEY G. CHAMBERLAINRaytheon Electronic SystemsMS T3TN46, 50 Apple Hill Dr.Tewksbury, MA 01876+1 508 858 5012+1 508 585 1955 (FAX)[email protected]
IEEE NewslettersPAUL DOTO445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08855-1331+1 732 562 3945+1 732 981 1855 (FAX)[email protected]
Vice PresidentInternational ActivitiesJOSEPH R. VADUSGlobal Ocean Inc.8500 Timber HillPotomac, Maryland 20854+1 301 299 5477+1 301 983 4825 (FAX)[email protected]
Journal of OceanicEngineering EditorJAMES F. LYNCHOceans Physics and
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Vice President,Professional ActivitiesJAMES S. COLLINSDept. of Elec. and Comp.EngineeringUniversity of VictoriaP.O. Box 3055Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 3P6(250) 595-6928(250) 595-6908 (FAX)[email protected]
SecretarySTEPHEN M. HOLT11950 Grey Squirrel LaneReston, VA 20194+1 703 610 2000
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EX-OFFICIO
Jr. Past PresidentGLEN N. WILLIAMSEngineering Program OfficeTexas A&M UniversityCollege Station, TX 77843-3112979 845 [email protected]
Sr. Past PresidentCLAUDE P. BRANCART18 Juniper RoadBrunswick, ME 04011-3414207 729 [email protected]@ieee.org
Membership DevelopmentKENNETH FERER
NominationsCLAUDE P. BRANCART
ChaptersNORMAN MILLER
Journal EditorJAMES F. LYNCH
Awards and FellowsDAVID WEISSMANDept. of Engineering104 Weed HallHofstra UniversityHempstead, N.Y. 11549516 463 5546516 463 4939 (Fax)[email protected]
Publications Review BoardGLEN N. WILLIAMS
Newsletter EditorFREDERICK H. MALTZ
PaceNORMAN D. MILLER
TAB Engineering Research andDevelopment Policy CommitteeJOSEPH R. VADUS
ELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
JAMES BARBERA(see Treasurer)
ROBERT T. BANNON, PresidentBannon International Consulting301 Willow RunEast Stroudsburg, PA [email protected] 619 5430570 619 5107 (Fax)
CLAUDE P. BRANCART(see Ex-Officio)
JERRY C. CARROL411 Country Club Drive
Picayune, Ms. 39466email: jerryc@datasync,com
STANLEY G. CHAMBERLAIN(see Vice President, Technical Activities)
JOSEPH CZIKA, JR.T.A.S.C., Inc.13605 Dulles Technology DriveHerndon, VA [email protected] 793 3708703 561 0800 (Fax)
RENE GARELLO(see Chapter Chairman, France)
STEPHEN M. HOLT(see Secretary)
PAMELA J. HURSTLockheed Martin Maritime Systems& Sensors17 Danielle AvenueWesterly, RI 02891Cell [email protected]
WILLIAM M. CAREY(see Journal Associate Editor)
CHRISTIAN DE MOUSTIER(see Journal Associate Editor)
PROF. DIANE E. DIMASSAMassachusetts Maritime AcademyEngineering Dept. Harrington 215A101 Academy DriveBuzzards Bay, MA, 02532508-830-5000 [email protected]
FERIAL EL-HAWARY(see Chapter Chairmen)
IEEE OCEANIC ENGINEERING SOCIETY TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE CHAIRSModeling, Simulation & Visualization, ED GOUGH
Marine Communication Navigation & Positioning, DAVID CHADWELL
Oceanographic Instrumentation, MICHAEL HARRIS
Current Measurements, STEVEN P. ANDERSON
Underwater Acoustics, DR. KENNETH G. FOOTE
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, CLAUDE P. BRANCART
Air/Space Remote Ocean Sensing, DR. DAVID E. WEISSMAN
Ocean Policy Technology, DR. JOSEPH CZIKA, JR.
Sonar Signal & Image Processing, DR. JAMES CANDY
Non-Acoustic Image Processing, DR. FRANK M. CAIMI
Neural Networks and Information Processing, V. WILLIAM (BILL) PORTO
Environmental Technology, JAMES T. BARBERA, SR.
Technology Committees Coordinator, DR. STANLEY G. CHAMBERLAIN
Submarine Cable Technology, ROBERT T. BANNON & PAMELA J. HURST
Homeland Security, PAMELA J. HURST & ROBERT T. BANNON
President’s MessageWhat are we doing?Rewriting our Constitution and By-LawsAs promised, the major portion of the MayAdministrative Committee meeting was de-voted to the proposed revision to our Consti-tution and Bylaws. When the dust had settled,we decided not to change our Presidential andVice Presidential Structures. We generally ac-cepted moving some items from the Constitu-tion to the Bylaws, and moving some itemsfrom the Bylaws to a newly-created Policiesand Procedures document. We also agreed toclean up some infelicities of language.
After the discussion, we turned the pro-posal over to a Committee of Ten. They will do the finalwordsmithing, and then the Administrative Committee willvote on it. If they approve it, the Constitution will be referredto the Membership who will vote on final approval.
Changing our Field of Interest Statement.Article II, Section 1, of our Constitution contains the Field of In-terest Statement for the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society.Even though it is part of the Constitution, changes to it involve adifferent process. The Administrative Committee approved thechange. It must then be referred to the Presidents of the IEEE So-cieties and Councils, so that they can be sure that the proposedchange does not inappropriately overlap their Fields of Interest.
At the meeting in Houston, the Administrative Committeedid review our Field of Interest Statement and approved achange. Below is the letter I sent to the Technical ActivitiesBoard requesting their approval.
OurcurrentFieldof InterestStatement, last revised in1982, is:• The field of interest of the Society shall include all applications
of electrical and electronic engineering pertaining to all bodiesof water. Included are design, testing and application of wa-ter-oriented systems, subsystems, and components. This shallinclude scientific, technical and industrial applications, or otheractivities that contribute to the field, or utilize the techniques or
products of the field, subject to modificationsdirected or approved by the IEEE TechnicalActivities Board as the art develops.The proposed Field of Interest Statement is:
• The field of interest of the Society includes allaspects of science, engineering, and technol-ogy that address research, development, andoperations pertaining to all bodies of water.This includes the creation of new capabilitiesand technologies from concept design throughprototypes, testing, and operational systems tosense, explore, understand, develop, use, andresponsibly manage natural resources.We propose this change for three reasons:
• First, in consonance with the recent broadening of qualifi-cations for IEEE membership, we propose to remove theexplicit reference to electrical and electronics engineering.We find, as do most Societies, that many of our membershave degrees in other disciplines, including not only phys-ics, but also chemistry and mechanical engineering. In fact,many universities’ Ocean Engineering programs as con-ducted by the Mechanical Engineering Department.
• Second, and again in consonance with the complexity andmultidisciplinary nature of Oceanic Engineering, we choseless limiting language to encourage all practitioners and re-searchers to understand the affinity they have for the activi-ties and members of the Society.
• Finally, we acknowledge the ocean as a single natural re-source supporting the well-being of the world and our re-sponsibility for understanding and protecting that resource.
IEEE/OES As The Primary Source OfOceanographic InformationLet’s Get Famous!This is the heading I used in last winter’s Newsletter. Since then, Ihave been working on IEEE issues for the Technical ActivitiesBoard. TAB is developing its own set of “issues”. I put that inquotes because we have, in recent years, come to use that issue
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Table of Contents
President’s Message · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 3From the Editor · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 42004 IEEE International Symposium on Underwater Technology · · · · · · · · 5National Ocean Sciences Bowl· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 6Stellar Technical Program Fuels OTC .04 Success · · · · · · · · · · · · 8Soundings by John Irza · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 9Ongoing Ocean Engineering Research at MIT · · · · · · · · · · · · · 11Upcoming Conferences · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 13OTO’04 · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 14
Thomas F. Wiener
instead of “problems”. Most of what we speak of as “issues” arereally problems, but nice people don’t have problems. At anyrate, as I went through the list of items, dealing with how to priceand package publications, and how to increase membership, andhow to improve governance, I cam e to the realization that theIEEE, and our Society as well, face two over-arching issues:
How can IEEE become an essential part of the lives ofresearchers and practitioners in our field of interest?
How can IEEE maintain its preeminence as the sourceof technical information in our field of interest?
These are, of course, interdependent and form a positivefeedback loop.
Change IEEE to OES and you are faced with the problem weneed to solve. How do we make our meetings the meeting of theyear for members of the Oceanic Engineering Community? Howdo we make our Journal the one that, if you don’t publish there, itdoesn’t really count? How do we foster, encourage, and supportlocal groups of our community members (Chapters) that are vi-brant and that, if you don’t participate in their activities, youaren’t really a member of our community? These questions arewhat your leadership will be working on for t least the next sixmonths, and, I hope, for the coming years.
2004 ConferencesAs I write this, our colleagues in the Baltic Countries are con-ducting the First U.S. Baltic International Symposium on “Ad-vances in Marine Environmental Research, Monitoring and
Technologies” in Klaipeda, Lithuania. The symposium is spon-sored by the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, IEEE Region8 and the Center for Marine Research, Ministry of Environ-ment, Lithuania. One hope is that this initiative will help IEEEmembers in Lithuania move forward in forming a new IEEEsection and an OES Chapter in Lithuania. At present the onlyChapter in Lithuania is a Microwave Theory and TechniqueChapter which is administered by the Polish Section.
At the same time, AUV ’04, organized by Claude Brancart,is being held in the exotic Maine wilderness. This year’s topicis multiple AUV operations. There will be two sessions perday. The last session will attempt to look into the future andformulate benchmarks to challenge people and create a visionfor future multiple AUV research.
We will finish the year with one major conference permonth. In September, we are participating in the InternationalGeoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ’04 in Anchor-age, Alaska. In October, IEEE SENSORS 2004 will be in Vi-enna, Austria. In November, OCEANS/Techno-Oceans ’04MTS/IEEE will be held in Kobe, Japan with Tamaki Ura asGeneral Chair. We are also in September. Finally, in Decem-ber, we will present the Second Homeland Security Workshopat Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.Please join in, come tothe meetings, and make them the sort of meeting that you can-not afford to miss.
From the EditorSpring 2004 POTE MeetingThis year’s IEEE Panel of Technical EditorsMeeting was held April 23-24 in Boston, MA. Itwas a very productive meeting and here are somehighlights that you might find interesting, plus arelated item.
IEEE Xplore Usage Statistics show a doublingyear over yearIn the session on how IEEE Gauges Content Qual-ity, Barbara H. Lange, Director, Publications Prod-uct Line Management and Business Developmentdescribed the various methods IEEE uses and howvarious societies compare. It is interesting to notethat the Signal Processing Society Transactions on Acoustics,Speech and Signal Processing rates very highly among others inusage and patents. Two other societies that have similar interestsas we, likewise are near the top, namely, CS and GRSS.
IEEE Release 1.6 of December 28, 2003 has significantenhancementsIn the session on Xplore Update, Gerry Grenier, Staff Director,Publishing Technologies described five significant enhancements,namely inclusion of subscription identifier, “cover to cover” mate-rial for publications, electronic re-use permissions, reference linksfor Magazines and a new search engine installed. The next release,
expected by the end of summer 2004, promisesapproximately 80% of the collection will befull-text text searchable.
All Society Research Project had some inter-esting findingsElena Gerstmann, Director, IEEE Research Cor-porate Strategy and Communications was thecoordinator for the study. In February 2003 - So-ciety Presidents endorsed a research project thatwould, for the first time, survey all IEEE Societ-ies. Each Society appointed a representative to aproject team consisting of 37 Society representa-tives. One of the overall findings was that mem-
bers of small Societies are more engaged in IEEE, emphasizenetworking more, attend more conferences, volunteer more,and are more satisfied with their volunteer activities than aremembers of larger Societies.
An Item related to the All Society Research ProjectJames S. Collins, OES Vice President for Professional Activi-ties represented our society for the project. In the last issue ofthe newsletter, I included a sampling of some of the results ob-tained, and which were specific to the OES.
See page 8 for the additional item which is related to the AllSociety Research Project.
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2004 IEEE InternationalSymposium on UnderwaterTechnologyThe Howard International HouseTaipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.April 20-23, 2004
The UT ’04 consisted of three days of technical presentationswith keynote speeches, talks, and a first-day technical/sight-seeing tour.
Technology TourHsin Chu Science Park (HSP). HSP has strived to developa favorable environment for investment, to attract high-techtalent, to introduce advanced technologies, and thus to pro-mote domestic industry. Over past 23 years, the govern-ment has invested approximately US$1,006 million in thePark’s infrastructure. Following decades of effort, HSP hasbecome to be a paragon of success, not only attracting over-seas guests and media, but also becoming a topic of discus-sion for scholars of economics and rural and urbandevelopment.
Opto Tech. This is the world’s leading manufacture of LEDcomponents and an innovator of LED system product solu-tions for a daily basis purposes including outdoor/indoor LEDscreen, traffic signaling, intelligent signage, LED lighting.Opto Tech also provides products and custom designing ser-vices on silicon and sensor components.
Keynote Speeches“A possible mechanism for acoustic triggering of decom-pression sickness symptoms in deep-diving marine mam-mals”,John Potter, Professor, National University ofSingapore, Singapore.
“Inovation and Integration through Ocean Exploration”,CAPT McLean Director, NOAA Office of Ocean Explora-tion, U.S.A.
“Technical Advances in the Naval Oceanography and Me-teorology Programs.”, Ed Gough, Technical Director, NavalMeteorology and Oceanographic Command, U.S.A.
“Status of Underwater Technology in Taiwan”, Yi-NanChen, President, United Ship Design and Development Cen-ter, Taiwan
The conference entertained the delegates by various socialfunctions, including 1) reception, 2) banquet, and 3) last-daycultural tour. This was a remarkable environment to indulgeall delegates in the frontier of underwater science and technol-ogy and a useful opportunity for the presentation of scientificwork and experiences.
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Stellar Technical Program Fuels OTC .04 SuccessRICHARDSON, Texas, U.S.A. (6 May 2004) - Many of the250-plus technical presentations had standing-room-only at-tendance during the four-day Offshore Technology Confer-ence (OTC), 3-6 May 2004. A 19-year high of 50,921attendees converged at Reliant Center at Reliant Park inHouston.
“A committee of more than 150 volunteers representingeach of OTC’s sponsoring organizations spent over a yearcreating the best technical program that I have seen since Ibecame involved in OTC in 1979,” said Rod Allan, OTC.04 Chairman. “The presentations delivered pertinent in-formation on the latest trends and technologies in the off-shore world.
There’s no doubt in my mind that OTC is a leading techni-cal conference in the oil and gas industry, not just the largestexhibition in the industry. Skipper Strong, the OTC .04 Pro-gram Committee Chair, and his talented assembly of volun-teers have risen to the challenge."
The 50,921 participants in 2004 give OTC the highest at-tendance since 1985. Those attending OTC represent 110 na-tions from around the world.
The exhibition at OTC this year included more than 2,120exhibiting companies, totaling 397,750 net square feet, fillingall the available indoor and outdoor space.
OTC also celebrated the first Spotlight on New Technol-ogy winners. Fifteen companies were recognized by OTC fortheir innovative contributions to the offshore world.
The 2005 OTC, “A Sea of Resources—An Ocean ofKnowledge,” takes place 2-5 May at Reliant Center at ReliantPark. For more information, visit www.otcnet.org/2005.
Founded in 1969, the Offshore Technology Conference isthe world’s foremost event for the development of offshore re-sources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production andenvironmental protection. OTC is held annually in May at theReliant Center at Reliant Park in Houston. For more informa-tion, visit www.otcnet.org.
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(continued from page 4)EXCERPT FROM THE ALL SOCIETY RESEARCH PROJECT
Soundings by John IrzaWelcome to the latest installment of“Soundings”, a column that reportson a broad spectrum of news itemsfrom the mainstream media as theyrelate to Ocean Engineering tech-nologies. The purpose of this col-umn is to inform the oceanengineering community of our in-dustry’s visibility in the media andhow the general public perceivesour efforts.
Return to TitanicShipwrecks, tragic as they are, often serve to draw the generalpublic’s attention to the ocean environment and the applica-tion of technology therein. The Titanic continues to generatenews with Dr. Robert Ballard’s return to the wreck in June of2004. In this latest expedition (a few days from beginning atthe time of this writing), Ballard and other researchers hope tospend 2 weeks surveying the wreck site in the hopes of pre-serving the area from un-authorized removal of artifacts.
The expedition will feature live broadcasts from the Na-tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ves-sel Ronald H. Brown, transmitted to the Mystic AquariumInstitute for Exploration and to schools and research centersnationwide. For more information on the web, go tohttp://www.mysticaquarium.org/immersion/
Third Seawolf-class SubmarineChristenedAnother high profile event that often brings attention to our cor-ner of the world is the christening of a submarine. On June 5, theUS Navy’s newest Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarineJimmy Carter (SSN 23) was christened at a ceremony at GeneralDynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Conn. This is the third and fi-nal sub in the Seawolf-class, weighing in at 12,139 tons, sportinga beam of 40 feet, and covering a length of 453 feet. The new sub-marine honors the 39th president of the United States who is the
only submarine-qualified man who went on to become the na-tion’s chief executive. The Jimmy Carter is unique from all otherundersea vessels in that it is a Multi-Mission Platform (MMP),which includes a 100-foot hull extension that enhances payloadcapability, enabling it to accommodate advanced technology re-quired to develop and test an entirely new generation of weapons,sensors and undersea vehicles. Upon commissioning in 2005,Jimmy Carter will join the U.S. Pacific Fleet under the commandof Cmdr. Robert D. Kelso.
US Ocean Policy Commission ReleasesPreliminary ReportAmid a fair degree of mainstream media publicity, the U.S.
Commission on Ocean Policyreleased its Preliminary Reportwith detailed findings and rec-ommendations for a coordi-nated and comprehensivenational ocean policy. Thecommission invited commentson the preliminary report untilJune 4. The goal of the report isto provide a guide to achievinga balanced approach to protect-ing the marine environmentwhile sustaining the vital roleoceans and coasts play in our
lives and national economy. The 16-member Commissionwas mandated by the Oceans Act of 2000, authorized by Con-gress and appointed by the President.
While the reader is encouraged to review the entire report,two sections bear particular relevance to technologists:Part III: Ocean Stewardship: The Importance of Education
and Public AwarenessPart VII:Science-based Decisions: Advancing Our Under-
standing of the OceansThe report can be found on the web at
http://www.oceancommission.gov/
Sponges Clean Up in Fiber TechIn yet another example of nature’s talent for engineering, a re-cent Nature article described how scientists have a discovered
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a sponge existing in dark, cool waters that produces high qual-ity optical fibers. The sponge, nicknamed the “Venus FlowerBasket,” grows natural biological glass fibers up to 7 inches inlength. The natural fibers are much more flexible thanman-made fiber, which will break if bent too far. Scientistshave tied natural fiber into tight knots and still have not brokenthe fiber.
The fibers exhibit optical transmission characteristics aswell as man-made industrial optical fiber. More impor-tantly, the sponge’s fiber is formed at cold temperatures andalso has a level of sodium added to its material which givesthe fiber improved transmissibility. Commercial manufac-turing technology, which uses high temperatures to create amore brittle fiber, cannot add sodium because of the tem-peratures involved.
The discovery is yet another example of the growing fieldof Biomimetics: studying naturally engineered systems andapplying the knowledge to technology.
LASH-ing OutUSA Today recently ran an article describing the US Navy’splans to test the Littoral Airborne Sensor Hyperspectral, orLASH surveillance system off the coast of Japan this Fall. Anearlier version of LASH had been used to detect spottedwhales and submarines below the surface of the ocean. Thesystem detects submerged targets by analyzing underwatercolor patterns and detecting color gradations too faint for thehuman eye to notice.
Because North Korean and Chinese submarines frequentthe area where the testing will be conducted, the potential ex-ists for a heightened level of tension in the area.
The LASH system was developed by Hawaii-based Sci-ence & Technology International (STI). Because the systemuses reflected sunlight to illuminate a target, it is useful onlyduring daylight hours. More information can be found on theweb at http://www.sti-industries.com/index.html
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Ongoing Ocean Engineering Research at MIT
Achieving a Fuller Understanding of the Ocean and the Systemsthat Effectively Utilize this Extensive Resource
By Dr. David BurkeSenior LecturerDepartment of Ocean EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, Massachusetts
Visitors to the Hart Nautical Museum in the Department ofOcean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy (MIT) have the opportunity to interact with an educationalversion of “Finding Nemo.” Undergraduate students AaronSokoloski (junior, mechanical engineering), Audrey Roy (ju-nior, electrical engineering) and Katie Wasserman (senior,ocean engineering) have developed an interactive virtualaquarium that uses actual flow field data to display the vorticesbehind swimming fish.
iQuarium is a colorful, interactive aquarium display screenthat features swimming fish and a visible flow field in theirwake. The student team has created an animated fishscreensaver with 3D modeling and rendering software, basedon libraries of empirical data that exist on fluid flow phenom-ena such as the complex vortices that form around live swim-ming fish. Vortical flow field visualizations have been brokendown into a library and brought together into apseudo-realtime sequence that a user can control. Anyonewho passes by the display will be able to see the vortices shed-ding almost instantly as the fish swim.
The project is one of a number of iCampus projects spon-sored by MIT and Microsoft Research that seek to revolution-ize the practice of higher education with the tools ofinformation technology. Many other research projects in thedepartment provide the fundamental technology to supportgovernment and industrial sponsors.
Hydrodynamics of Swimming FishAquatic creatures such as fish have had the luxury of optimiz-ing their design through evolution to achieve remarkable loco-motive skills. Some of the larger swimmers that are optimizedrealize high swimming speeds, long ranges and excellent pro-pulsive efficiencies. Many fish over a broad scale of sizeshave, likewise, developed maneuvering techniques that allowthem to complete a 180° turn in less than half of their bodylength.
Professors Michael S. Triantafyllou, Dick K.P. Yue andAlex Techet have developed a suite of tools to analyze fishstraight-line swimming and maneuvering, both through ex-perimental observations and measurements, as well as de-tailed approximate analytic and numerical methods.Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), these ef-forts have addressed theoretical and experimental basic re-search issues involved in the fluid mechanics, sensing and
control, and actuation of a 3D unsteadily flapping foil employ-ing vorticity control to enhance the underwater agility ofrigid-hull marine vehicles. The results of the study will form abasis for the near-term development of technology to augmentand enhance the capability of existing vehicles.
The flapping foil is a self-contained thruster device that canbe used to provide the necessary control forces to submers-ibles and surface ships in rapid maneuvering. Ongoing pro-jects focus on developing novel underwater vehicles capableof enhanced agility in the surf zone and cluttered environ-ments. The vehicles have a rigid hull, but will be equippedwith biomimetically designed flapping foils and undulatingfins for propulsion and promaneuvering. The shape of the hulland the actuation and control of the foils will be basedbiomimetically on the structure and function of fish and mam-mals that have adapted to similar environments. This will gen-erate a near-term enhanced capability for ocean observation inshallow water and cluttered reef areas.
Underwater AcousticsIn the area of ocean acoustics, Professors Henrik Schmidt,John Leonard and other MIT faculty have developed amulti-disciplinary, systems-oriented approach to the solutionof oceanrelated problems. Among these efforts is a major pro-gram with strong ONR and international support from theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization SACLANT Undersea Re-search Centre involving the integration of new autonomousocean observation and environmental modeling capabilitieswith acoustic sensing techniques to provide the next genera-
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Graduate students visualizing fish motion at iQuarium.
Reprinted with permission of Sea Technology Magazine
tion of sonar systems and robust and reliable forecasting capa-bilities for ocean environmental management and technicalnaval operations.
A very successful generic ocean array technology sonars(GOATS) demonstration was completed in 2002. Processingof data from these experiments still continues and additionalmajor joint experiments are planned in future years. Althoughunlikely to be ready for immediate application, these capabili-ties hold great promise for application to naval mine warfare.
Drilling in Extreme DepthsThe DeepStar Project is a joint industry technology develop-ment project focused on advancing the technologies needed todrill and produce hydrocarbons in water depths up to 10,000feet. To support this effort, Prof. Kim Vandiver is planning toconduct a deepwater flow-induced vibration experiment. Pre-liminary tests were conducted in November 2003 at the U.S.Navy’s Lake Seneca acoustics facility in upstate New York.After additional testing in this facility, more tests may be con-ducted in the Gulf of Mexico. This research focuses on highmode number vortex-induced vibration (VIV).
Earlier efforts in this area developed SHEAR7, a VIV re-sponse prediction program able to model the response of longcylinders with a variety of boundary conditions,non-monotonic flow profiles and, for the first time, allows theuser to completely specify the behavior of the lift coefficientas a function of reduced velocity and response amplitude. Thisprogram is continually being upgraded. Atlantia, a consultingfirm in Houston, Texas, is the worldwide licensing agent.
High-Performance Surface ShipsFollowing the maturity of the development of the SWAN suiteof programs for the analysis of steady and unsteady flows pastconventional and high-speed vessels, Prof. Paul Sclavounos isinvestigating the development of optimization algorithms forthe selection of minimum resistance and/or maximum perfor-mance vessels for operation in calm water and in waves.
This research uses methods from optimal control theoryand dynamic programming algorithms either for the selectionof optimal hull form shapes or the optimal operation of vesselsin stochastic sea states. In calm water, adjoint methods, whichhave found widespread use and success in aerodynamics andother fields of engineering, are being developed for the deter-mination of optimal shapes of hydrofoils operating under afree surface and for the determination of attributes ofhigh-speed hull forms that generate minimal wakes.
Renewable Energy OffshoreIn collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Labora-tory (NREL), research efforts focus on the evaluation of float-ing offshore wind turbine concepts for the cost-effectivegeneration of electricity in water depths ranging from 50 to200 meters.
The computer programs FAST and ADAMS, developed atNREL for the analysis of wind turbine aerodynamics and dy-namics, are being coupled with the Swim-Motion-Lines soft-ware suite, developed at the Laboratory for Ship and PlatformFlows at MIT, for the hydrodynamic analysis and responsesimulation methods of offshore platforms and their extensionsfor extreme wave conditions. The combined programs are be-ing used to carry out dynamic response simulations of off-shore wind turbine concepts supported by two types offloaters: one tethered and the second moored to the seafloor.
Autonomous Vehicles in ArcheologyIn the summer of 2002, Prof. Chrys Chryssostomidis was thechief scientist of a 10-day expedition to Argentario, Italy. Anautonomous underwater vehicle was used to explore the oceanbottom for archaeological artifacts.
During the Argentario expedition, the ocean bottom nearElba and Argentario was mapped using side scan sonar. Atpresent, the massive amount of data collected during the expe-dition is being analyzed for images of archaeological interest.
The long-term research objective is to ground truth sidescan sonar records with visual images as well as to start build-ing a library of sonar targets with visual comparisons that willhelp future explorers identify interesting targets.
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Distributed vortices along a ship hull.
AUV used in GOATS project.
TransportationWaterborne cargo transportation remains the dominant meansfor delivering goods globally. Economics plays a major role indecisions affecting ship capacity needed and pricing strate-gies. Prof. Hank Marcus is currently examining the uniquefeatures of Hawaii waterborne trade in light of dramaticchanges in technology. A report is anticipated in the near fu-ture that will evaluate the current situation assessing impactsof regulation and the influence of politics. It will also serve as acase study for future graduate students.
Computer Solid ModelingInconsistent solid models of ships, offshore rig structures, au-tomobiles and airplanes contribute to wasting large efforts andcosts in developing designs. The National Science Foundationis sponsoring efforts to study the issues of representation andinterrogation of objects bounded by curved surfaces in a com-puter environment. Prof. Nick Patrikalakis is developing anew generation of robust and efficient algorithms capitalizingon tight interval arithmetic enclosures.
Key to this effort is developing robust and efficient meth-ods for computing the multiplicity and arithmetic values ofmultiple roots of non-linear polynomial systems. Other re-search efforts have developed a digital watermark concept toprotect copyrighted material available in digital form throughsuch avenues as the Internet.
Crashworthy Ship StructuresCrashworthiness is an attribute important in the design of au-tomobiles, as well as ships. The Impact and Crash WorthinessLaboratory has developed structures capable of dealing withextreme loads.
Recent research in this area by Prof. Tomasz Wierzbickideals with the development of blast-resistant adaptive sand-wich structures and the fundamental understanding of failuremechanisms in materials.
Wavemaking Forces on ShipsVarious approaches to theoretically determining thewavemaking forces on ships and near-surface underwater vehi-cles have been conducted for more than 100 years. Viscosity isresponsible for both skin friction and viscous wakes, a majorcomponent of resistance. Prof. Jerry Milgram, with his doctoralstudents, is developing a different procedure for the computa-tion of ship-resistance, which includes both wavemaking andviscous effects, along with their interactions. The approach hasbeen successfully applied to the design of aircraft, and is re-ferred to as a two and a half D method. This project is extendingthe method to non-linear free surface flows around ships. Theresults will enable the evaluation of ship resistance and pitchingmoments, as well as side forces for oblique inflows and for ves-sels with lifting surfaces such as rudders and sailboat fin keels.
Formore information, [email protected]
Dr. David Burke is a senior lecturer inthe Department ofOcean Engineering atMIT. He is responsible for subjects instructural design for ships. Prior to join-ing the ocean engineering department,he retired from the U.S. Navy, spendingmost of his career involved with subma-rine design. Following his naval service,
Burke was vice president of engineering at Draper Labora-tory until retiring in 1998.
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