This research was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research under Grant N00014-01-1-0073 under the administration of Dr. Patrick Purtell whose support is greatly appreciated.

Ship Hydrodynamics group (Early 2007)

Special thanks are extended to Dr. Joe Longo, Seokcheon Go, and EFD group members (Surajeet Ghosh, and George Reins), CFD members (Dr. Pablo Carrica, Nobuak Sakamoto, and Dr. Jun Shao) and undergraduates (Evan Aschbrenner, Peter Carusona, Mike Elgin, Nathan Hicks, Matt Marquardt, Ryan Nielsen, Rob White, Issac Johnson, Scott Salsbery and Chelsea Cross).