Research Summaries

Back Development of Non-Traditional Detection Algorithms for Undersea Warfare (continuation)

Fiscal Year 2017
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Radko, Timour
Sponsor NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary This study will continue to address the problem of hydrodynamically-based detection of the surface and subsurface wakes generated by transiting submersibles. This project represents a natural extension of the previous highly successful NRP-supported effort (NPS-N16-N155-A), which produced four NPS thesis. Our primary objective is to investigate the wake intensity, its thermal signatures and detection potential. Research activities will involve numerical, laboratory and field experiments. Our work will be aimed to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of stratified wakes in a realistic oceanic environment and will offer valuable operational guidance in this regard. This work is most timely since numerical modeling capabilities, and understanding of environmental influences, have only recently reached the level at which all key physical components can be fully represented. The identification of detection vulnerabilities will affect the tactics of undersea warfare by narrowing search areas for USW. These techniques became particularly appealing in the view of continuous technological advances in remote sensing methods, which have dramatically improved the accuracy of measurements in the submarine wake.
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