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DIRECTED ENERGY
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
2004 Directed Energy Modeling & Simulation Conference
Short Courses |
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9 March 2004 |
Huntsville, Alabama | |
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These short courses were offered in
conjunction with the Directed Energy Modeling and Simulation Conference. All courses
were Unclassified/Public Domain and were held at the Conference hotel, the Huntsville Marriott. All
courses began at 0800 on Tuesday, 9 March and ended by 1200. Students earned 0.35 CEU for
each course.
Modeling and Simulation in the Current Transformational Environment
Instructor:
- Rick Graber, Northrop Grumman
The student will have an understanding of the differences between current uses for modeling and simulation (M&S)
and uses projected as a result of Department of Defense (DoD) Transformation. The student will have an appreciation
for current M&S Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) requirements resulting from DoD's Force
Transformation. The student will grasp the differences between effects-based operations/mission planning
and current operations/mission planning. The student will understand the impacts on M&S as a result of
coalition and joint systems of systems warfighting concepts. The student will understand how virtual, constructive,
and live simulations will be used in the future for research and development technology enhancement,
warfighting systems acquisition, developmental and operational test and evaluation (DT&E and OT&E) executing, mission
planning, mission training, warfighting exercises, and mission rehearsals.
Topics:
Transformation planning guidance
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 3170.01C
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Manual (CJCSM) 3170.01
Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 5000.1
Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.2
Air Force Transformation
Joint Capabilities, Integration, and Development System (JCIDS)
Concepts of Operation (CONOPS) Focus
Student who can profit:
Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP) participants
Students with Test and Evaluation experience
M&S developers and operations analysts
Systems requirements developers
Research and development (R&D) technology developers
Joint and coalition CONOPS planners
Instructor Biography
Rick Graber is business development manager for the Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT)
Sector's Advanced Technology Division, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The division specializes
in providing imaging systems and laser systems technology development expertise to numerous
Department of Defense customers. Graber is a retired Air Force colonel with a Bachelor of Science
degree in mathematics from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. During his 26 years of Air
Force active duty, he served as a flight examiner, instructor and electonic warfare officer,
accumulating more than 2,000 flight hours, primarily in the F-105G and F-4G Wild Weasel
aircraft. He spent more than six years working for Project CHECKMATE and the Assistant
Chief of Staff for Studies and Analysis, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, and was a joint staff
officer, a fighter aircraft maintenance squadron commmander and a Wild Weasel squadron
operations officer. Graber also spent more than five years with the Air Force Operational
Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) in positions including electronic warfare division chief
and deputy director and director, AFOTEC Weapon Systems Directorate. As the AFOTEC
Weapon Systems director, he guided operational test and evaluation planning, execution and
reporting for 75 military programs whose purchase costs exceeded $200 billion. Fifteen of these
programs had Congressional oversight.
HELCOMES User Workshop
Instructor:
- Dr. Richard St. John, SAIC
HELCOMES is a high-energy laser system-level engagement code anchored to SAIC's wave optics code,
Atmospheric Compensation Simulation (ACS), used to predict high-energy laser system performance.
Its legacy dates back to "System Performance Code"(SPC) circa 1983, which itself was based on a
code written under the SWATM contract. SPC was further developed by SAIC in 1994 using scaling laws
to predict ABL performance. During the past few years, SAIC developed models for ground-based, space-based,
and maritime HEL systems.
In its current form HELCOMES is a GUI-driven system-level code that simulates a one-on-one
engagement for either a single-point-in-time (snapshot) or an engagement that includes target and
platform motions. It runs in MATLAB and, with the use of scaling laws and other closed-form equations,
is written to execute quickly.
This course is designed to show new users how to begin using HELCOMES and, by the end of the course,
attendees will be able to use HELCOMES in both the GUI mode and in advanced batch mode.
Topics:
Historical overview
Tutorial
Getting started
GUI interfaces
Opening existing scenario
Modifying existing scenario
Generating output
Parameter variations
Running in batch mode
Advanced batch mode
Students who can profit
This course is appropriate for anyone who has the need to simulate High Energy Laser System performance.
Instructor Biography
Dr. Richard St. John earned his Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics and has worked in the High Energy
Laser simulation field for 6 years. He has contributed several presentations and technical papers to the HEL community.
Dr. St. John is the primary author of HELCOMES and also has expertise on SAIC's wave optics simulation ACS.
GASP CFD Code
Instructor:
- Dr. Bill McGrory, AeroSoft
GASP is a general purpose, compressible Navier-Stokes CFD solver which includes physical modeling
to enable the simulation of chemical laser power generation as well as the external flow fields found in
atmospheric flight. This course will provide an overview of features found in GASP and demonstrate the steps
required to obtain solutions to DE-related CFD applications. Developed originally for hypersonic
and SCRAMJET related research, GASP is uniquely suited to efficiently and accurately model the internal
flow fields of chemical lasers. GASP includes specialized physical models for the chemical reactions, mixing and
boundary conditions of COIL and HF lasers. GASP also includes power extraction for a stable resonator
using geometic ray tracing.
Topics:
Historical overview
Summary of GASP features
RADICL simulation tutorial
Physical models related to DE
Turbulence models in GASP
Time dependent flows
Chimera-overset grids
Design sensitivities in GASP
What's down the road
Students who can profit
This course is appropriate for anyone wishing a general understanding of the capabilities of advanced CFD
in DE fluid modeling and a more detailed introduction to GASP.
Instructor Biography
Dr. McGrory is the President and Chief Scientist of AeroSoft, Inc in Blacksburg, Virginia. Dr. McGrory
received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech. As an original member of the AeroSoft
staff, he is one of the primary authors of GASP. Dr. McGrory has been involved with the application of CFD
to chemical lasers for over eight years.
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