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The David Taylor Model Basin is one of the largest ship model basins — test facilities for the development of ship design — in the world. David Watson Taylor designed and supervised construction in 1896 of the Washington Navy Yard's Experimental Model Basin (EMB). The Basin named for him was built in 1939 in Bethesda, Maryland and contains a shallow water basin, a deep water basin, and a high-speed basin. The David Taylor Model Basin is currently operated as a field activity of the Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center. Major research conducted at DTMB includes ship bow, hull and propeller design, ventilating fans, development of naval aviation, and computational methods for use in hydrodynamics. For more information, Click here.

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Performance of Concussion Valves in Ventilation Ducts

Smith, Drewry (2010-04-26)
The Calculation and Measurement of Elastic Natural Frequencies of Ship Hulls

Unknown creator (2010-04-26)
Antislime Coatings Part III - Antislime Organometallic Polymers of Optical Quality

Montemarano, J.A.; Dyckman, E.J. (2010-04-26)
Antislime Coatings Part II - Preconditioning Value of Slime for Barnacle Attachment

Unknown creator (2010-04-26)
Antislime Coatings Part I - Primary Marine Fouling

Dyckman, E.J.; Castelli, V. (2010-04-26)
Application of the Method of Integral Relations (MIR) to Transonic Airfoil Problems, Part II - Inviscid Supercritical Flow about Lifting Airfoils with Embedded Shock Wave

Unknown creator (2010-04-26)
Powering Characteristics Obtained with Vertical Axis Propellers for LCU(A) Represented by Model 4952-1

Dickerson, Mary (2010-04-26)
Propulsion Characteristics Obtained with Vertical Axis Propellers from LCU(A) Represented by Model 4952

Dickerson, Mary (2010-04-26)
Preliminary Report of Strains and Motions of the S.S. Esso Asheville for the Period 24 August 1952 Through 31 July 1953

Jasper, Norman (2010-04-26)
An Analysis of Cable and Housing Requirements for a Deep-Towed Body at High Speed

Pode, Leonard (2010-04-26)
Model Experiments to Determine Rudder Forces - New Mexico

Eggert, E. F. (2010-04-26)
A Method to Determine Pressure Distribution on a Ship Propeller Blade Operating in a Nonuniform Velocity Field Using a Model that Accounts for Unsteady Hydrodynamic Processes

Szantyr, Jan (2010-04-12)
Simplified Analysis of the Natural Frequencies for Bending Vibrations of Shafts

Movnin, M.S.; Akselrad, E.L. (2010-04-12)
Spherical Shell Weakened by Two Unequal Circular Holes

Savin, G.N. (2010-04-12)
Effect of a Reinforcing Ring on the Stresses in a Cylindrical Shell with a Circular Hole

Fleishman, N.P. (2010-04-12)
On the Theory of Stability of a Prolate Spheroidal Shell under Uniform External pressure

Surkin, R.G. (2010-04-12)
Motion of a Thin Wing Near the Free Surface of a Liquid

Panchenkov, A.N. (2010-04-12)
Stresses in a Spherical Shell (Dome)

Reissner, Hans (2010-04-12)
The Exciting Forces and Wetting of Ships in Waves

Haskind, M.D. (2010-04-12)
On Certain Problems of Water Jet Propulsion

Schuster, S.; Schwanecke, H.; Dernedde, R.; Schmiechen, M.; Schwechheimer, H.J. (2010-04-12)