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... Accordingly, the committee recommends as follows: · To enable the Department of the Navy to maintain superiority in naval hydromechanics and to allow the necessary resources to be devoted to this aim, ONR should designate naval hydromechanics as a National Naval Need. ~ The committee is concerned that ONR support for research in ship and submarine hydromechanics and, in turn, the output of new ideas and technology have declined over the past decade.
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... Funding for 6.1 should be less focused on immediate needs and more focused on broad, long term 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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... Experts from the different centers should be involved in intercenter scientific committees promoting the scrutiny and discussion of issues such as design and upgrade of facilities, qualification and documentation of the characteristics of an adequate facility, development and acquisition of new instrumentation and measurement techniques, physical interpretation of data, and evaluation of the scientific merit of the proposed experiments and the results obtained. Funding allocations should be based not only on the merit of proposed work but also on a track record of significant contributions from past work.
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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 anywhere at any time.


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