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Video by Devin Pisner, Travis Troller
Michelle Otero, Engineer at Carderock
Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division
July 25, 2024 | 3:53
Michelle Otero, an Engineer at Carderock, conducts resistance and repulsion research for the Cavitation Erosion project at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division's Large Cavitation Channel at its detachment in Memphis, Tenn., July 25, 2024. Otero discusses cavitation and its effects on different building materials used in naval ships and explains how she captures data using high-speed imaging, laser Doppler velocimetry, and laser vibrometer systems. Carderock's LCC is the world’s largest and most advanced high-speed, variable-pressure water tunnel facility, and is crucial for testing the Navy's ship and submarine propellers and their interactions with hulls at scales matching the largest towing and turning basins around the globe. (U.S. Navy video by Travis Troller & Devin Pisner)
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