Summary
The contractor shall perform analytical modeling to describe the structural response of a simplified two-body compliant body during water impact. The analysis should accommodate arbitrary nose shapes. The contractor shall validate this model against experiments performed by the contractor in their laboratory. The contractor shall also perform analytical modeling to describe the structural response of a continuous elastic body during water impact. By analytical modeling, we mean a modeling approach that yields a set of equations that can be evaluated in matlab over a range of parameters, without requiring the use of cfd and/or fea.