The University of Texas Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM) is developing flywheel energy storage systems for combat and commercial vehicles and also leads the major U.S. Flywheel Safety and Containment Program, a consortium effort of several leading flywheel developers. Safety for high performance composite flywheel systems on combat vehicles presents special challenges that impact the design...

Support for this work was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) MURI N0014081186 as well as ONR Minerva – Dynamic Statistical Network Informatics N000141512797. Additional support was provided by the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems and the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. The views and conclusions contained in this do...

The U.S. Navy is a major investor in ocean model development. The pay-off of such an investment is the value-added ocean nowcast/forecast systems on naval operations and warfare effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the value added of the Navy’s nowcast/forecast system to naval antisubmarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASUW). The nowcast/forecast versus observat...

Digital transformation – the pervasive incorporation of digital technology into virtually every process and system is arguably greatest force change within naval engineering community. innovation disrupting traditional ship design paradigms giving rise to new ways modernising sustaining a future integrated structure. This paper highlights as core strategic initiative that aligned with U.S. Depa...

Lanchester’s Equations are one of the most misunderstood and misused models of combat, yet they remain in widespread use as the combat mechanism behind many simulation systems. Previous work by the author examined the impact of a fractal distribution of forces on Lanchester’s theory of combat. The present work extends that examination to conceptual issues regarding interpretation of Lanchester'...

Public interest in the naval seaman grew dramatically during the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. Images of the British bluejacket entered the popular imagination through such diverse means as advertising, entertainment, newspapers, politics and philanthropy. Yet these images were hardly consistent. While some representations portrayed naval seamen as dutiful patriotic servants...

Our long-term goal is to develop and apply new theory, algorithms and computational systems for the sustained coordinated operation of multiple collaborative autonomous vehicles over long time durations in realistic multiscale nonlinear ocean settings, such that the integrated naval system optimally collects observations, rigorously propagates information backward and forward in time, and accur...

he process of digitising and networking the modern military is as tortuous as was the case in industry a decade ago, with added complexities arising from technological needs unique to the military. As has been observed in the industry framework, digitisation and networking can produce large gains in productivity, and the same is true for military environments; but used as a force multiplier and...