Michele Cooper

Michele is a PhD student studying approaches to verification and validation of code.  This work has her covering the range from experimental, to numerical, to analytical work.  Her broad background also maker her the team’s defacto expert on everything from theology to health and nutrition.  Posts highlighting Michele’s work can be found by searching on the tag ‘Cooper‘ on this site.

 

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Modeling, verification, and validation of chaotic systems with application to ship motions and the Lorenz oscillator

McCue, L.S., Wu, W., Story, W.R., and Xing, Z., “Modeling, verification, and validation of chaotic systems with application to ship motions and the Lorenz oscillator,” 2009 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, HI, June, 2009.

Rob Story, MS

W. Robert Story, MS thesis “Application of Lyapunov Exponents to Strange Attractors and Intact & Damaged Ship Stability,” successfully defended April 29, 2009. Recipient of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ ETD Master’s Thesis Award in the “Innovative Application of Technology to Scholarship in a Master’s Thesis” category.  For more on Rob’s work, click on the tag ‘Story‘ on this site.

Reconciling experimental and numerical data: techniques of nonlinear seakeeping code validation

McCue, L.S., Belknap, W., and Campbell, B., “Reconciling experimental and numerical data: techniques of nonlinear seakeeping code validation,” invited submission to Marine Systems and Ocean Technology, 2006, Volume 2, Numbers 1-2, pp. 55-62. Originally presented at the 8th International Ship Stability Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, October, 2005.