OpportunityTitle: Special Program Announcement For 2011 Office of Naval Reserach Basic Research Challenge:  Reduced-Order Representations for Design:  Development of Analytical and Computational Techniques for Multi-physics Based Models of Ship Platforms and Systems
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: See ONRBAA11-001 for Eligibility Information
Description: The Basic Research Challenge (BRC) Program is to advance computational methods for design and optimization across a heterogeneous set of physical processes. The program will focus on development of reduced-order representations of general classes of data and physical processes, with a focus on significantly improved speed of system optimization, as well as an efficient and mathematically rigorous framework for investigation of the system &quot;trade space&quot;. The program will integrate basic research in mathematics, optimization, physics-based modeling, and statistics. The approach is a) to develop a rigorous mathematical and computational framework for building the lowest-dimensional model that can capture the dominant behavior of the system of interest, b) to develop new and more efficient methods for searching the design &#147;trade space,&#148; and c) to improve the efficiency of the evaluation of the physics-based models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: &#149; methods for computing reduced-order bases (ROBs) which offer simultaneously sparsity, computational efficiency, and numerical stability, with the goal of optimal exploration of the parameter space &#149; global error bounds for methods for computing ROBs which offer both sparsity and stability &#149; efficient methods for determining the optimal dimension of the low-order representations of a given computational model ******************************************* Applicants shall NOT apply under this Special Notice. Applicants shall apply using the Application Instructions and Package under ONRBAA11-001 by 15 April 2011.
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GrantorContactText: Lynn Christian &lt;br/&gt;Contracting Officer &lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: Refer to the Special Notice regarding white paper submittals.  Full proposals (including one technical volume and one cost volume) should be submitted under ONRBAA11-001 by 15 April 2011. Full proposals received after that date will be considered only insofar as agency time and continued availability of funding permit.