Planning IUCRC at Texas A&M University: Center for Ocean System Simulation and Control

海洋系统对美国的福祉至关重要，通过航运和港口系统提供货物，通过海上石油，天然气和可再生能源开发提供能源，并通过海洋国防系统提供国家安全。将自主权整合到海洋系统中有可能通过降低成本并通过运输船舶的无人驾驶实现新的行业进步来显著影响这些基础行业，开发用于海洋调查或国防活动的水下无人机，开发用于车辆和平台操作和控制的数字孪生模型，以及优化设计以开发有竞争力的可再生能源技术。海洋系统模拟与控制中心（COSSC）旨在将多保真度计算建模技术与物理传感器系统相结合，以推进智能海洋系统受控操作的基础研究，包括使用先进材料，使用分布式传感，自主和创新车辆和平台，节能和流体结构动态建模。根据行业提供的研究兴趣投入，这两个网站将组成多元化的研究小组，包括代表性不足的学生，为年轻一代组织外展计划，并为行业专业人士设计短期课程。该中心规划阶段的目标是评估该中心的可行性，该中心有两个地点，分别位于德克萨斯农工大学（TAMU）和罗得岛大学（URI）。该项目将包括一个规划会议，与中心的潜在行业成员会面，介绍基础研究课题，并开发一套初步的行业审查研究项目，以形成中心的研究基础。TAMU网站将专注于海上石油和天然气以及造船业的行业合作，例如智能海上系统健康监测，耦合流体结构建模，极端负载事件的CFD，浮动船舶几何形状的优化以及CFD建模的复杂性降低等研究课题。URI网站将专注于国防和海洋可再生能源领域的行业合作，包括快速CFD混合方法，重建海况的浮动车辆运动控制，微型UUV的流体动力学建模，移动车辆数字孪生，以及波浪能转换器与海洋沉积物的相互作用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响评审标准。

Ocean systems are critical to the well-being of the United States, providing goods through shipping and port systems, providing energy through offshore oil, gas, and renewable development, and providing national security through ocean based national defense systems. The integration of autonomy into ocean systems has the potential to significantly impact these fundamental industries by reducing costs and enabling new industry advances through unmanned navigation of transport vessels, development of underwater drones for oceanographic surveying or defense activities, digital twin development for operation and control of vehicles and platforms, and optimization in design for the development of competitive renewable energy technologies. The Center for Ocean System Simulation and Control (COSSC) seeks to integrate multi-fidelity computational modeling techniques with physical sensor systems to advance fundamental research in the controlled operation of smart ocean systems, including the use of advanced materials, the use of distributed sensing, autonomy and innovation of vehicles and platforms, energy savings, and fluid-structure dynamic modeling. Based on the research interests inputs given by the industry, both sites will form diversified research groups including underrepresented students, organize outreach programs for young generations, and design short courses for industry professionals. The objective of this planning phase of the center is to assess the viability of the center, with two sites located at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the University of Rhode Island (URI). This project will include a planning meeting to meet with prospective industry members of the center to present fundamental research topics and develop a set of initial industry vetted research projects to form the research basis of the center. The TAMU site will focus on industry collaborations in offshore oil and gas and shipbuilding, with example research topics in smart offshore system health monitoring, coupled fluid-structure modeling, CFD of extreme loading events, optimization of floating vessel geometry, and complexity reduction in CFD modeling. The URI site will focus on industry collaborations in defense and ocean renewable energy with example research topics in fast CFD hybrid methods, floating vehicle motion control from reconstructed sea states, hydrodynamic modeling for micro UUVs, moving vehicle digital twins, and interaction of wave energy converters with marine sediments.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.