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An Assessment of Naval Hydromechanics Science and Technology (2000) / Chapter Skim
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6 Findings and Recommendations
Pages 40-44

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... These include free-surface effects, including breaking bow and stern waves, surface wakes, submarine wakes, cavitation, drag reduction, wave resistance, and added resistance in waves. In the absence of a strong commercial shipbuilding industry in the United States, there is no other patron but the Navy to lead research in these areas.
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From page 41...
... Funding for 6.1 should be less focused on immediate needs and more focused on broad, longterm research on fundamental problems in naval hydromechanics such as linear and nonlinear wave dynamics, including wave breaking, air entrainment elects, and air/sea interactions; all aspects of cavitating and supercavitating flows, including inception, noise, and damage; drag reduction and other aspects offlow control; surface and submerged wakes; hydrodynamic sources of noise; internal wave generation and propagation; and vortex dynamics and turbulence unique to naval surface and subsurface vehicle/sea interaction.
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From page 42...
... Some towing basins would be busier were it not for the fact that the maritime industry in the United States is progressively declining, and many potential users from the United States and abroad turn to overseas facilities.
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From page 43...
... A relatively small fraction of each center's efforts is directed at fundamental research. In some cases the size of the scientific staff working on fundamental problems seems below critical mass, and groups in the different The overall management philosophy is geared toward developmental activities and does not nurture fundamental research.
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... The new NASA Astrobiology Institute organized by the NASA/Ames Research Center, the European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence, and Combustion, and the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts are models for virtual centers. Virtual centers could draw upon researchers from anywhere at any time.
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