Optimal design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) consists of various
subsystems and disciplines such as guidance and control, payload, hydrodynamics, power …

“Our goal is to make warfighting effects and the capabilities we need to achieve them, the
driving factor for everything we do. This enables (us to develop the capabilities needed) to …

Part I of this two-part paper discussed the principles of cavitation inception in the torque
converter at stall, acoustical detection with a dynamometer test cell, and dimensional …

In the current Navy environment of undersea weapons development, the engineering aspect
of design is decoupled from the development of the tactics with which the weapon is …

In this paper the development of statistical metamodels and statistical fast running models is
presented first. They are utilized for propagating uncertainties in a multi-discipline design …

A new automated multi-level of fidelity Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO)
methodology has been developed at the MDO Laboratory of KN Toosi University of …

Technology, from the Greek techne meaning “craft” and logia meaning “ordering,” is “the
knowledge of the manipulation of nature for human purposes”. Technology is so critical to …

Ship performance characteristics, such as max-sustained speed, acceleration, and
maneuverability are generally pre-determined as a platform requirement based on …