Advanced Technology > ESPS > Technology, Concepts & Modeling (TCM)
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Advanced Technology
- Autonomous Control & Intelligent Systems
- Energy Science & Power Systems
- Sonar Research & Development
- Special Projects and Unmanned Vehicles
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- Experimental Support Group
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- Technology, Concepts & Modeling
 Aluminum Combustor |
The Technology, Concepts and Modeling Department (TCM) develops technology for power system modeling, optimization, and integration as well as energy production from a wide range of chemical fuels and oxidizers. TCM advances technologies that enable the development of innovative concepts such as a hybrid unmanned undersea vehicle that geometrically morphs or changes shape in response to a range of requirements for storage, elimination of waste volume, and enhanced mission endurance. |
Expertise:
- Applied chemistry
- Combustor design and testing, including:
- Aluminum-burning vortex combustion research
- Molten alkali alloy combustion research
- Turbine design and testing
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Finite Element Analysis and mechanical design
- Simulink
- Conceptual power plant and system modeling