Under a prior research effort entitled "Flow around Maneuvering Appended Bodies'" the NSF Engineering Research Center at Mississippi State University (MSU/ERC) and the Applied Research Laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University (ARL) developed a physics-based means of predicting the maneuvering characteristics of a self-propelled, fully-appended underwater vehicles. Subsequently, a follow-on project to extend the initial capability was undertaken. This effort addresses many of the issues that remained at the
conclusion of the original project. Specific areas being addressed include: (1)
computation of flow at very high (full-scale) Reynolds number, (2) investigation of different grid topologies, (3) turbulence models studies, (4) effective use of parallel processing, and (5) Depth-changing maneuvers. Subsequently, the follow-on effort was divided into two parts to allow consideration of classified configurations under a separate project.