About the Authors
Sheri L. Martinelli slm77@psu.edu
The Pennsylvania State University
PO Box 30, Mail Stop 9800L
State College, Pennsylvania 16804, USA
Sheri L. Martinelli is head of the Simulation Software Department of the Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, State College. Previously, she was a scientist at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island. Her research emphasizes modeling and simulation algorithm development for applications in underwater acoustics. She has a MS in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, and a PhD in applied mathematics from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
D. Keith Wilson d.keith.wilson@usace.army.mil
United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center
72 Lyme Road
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
D. Keith Wilson is a research physical scientist in the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Hanover, New Hampshire. He received a PhD in acoustics from the Pennsylvania State University, State College, in 1992 and was a research fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His research spans many topics related to wave propagation, turbulence, remote sensing, statistics, and simulation. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and a Lindsay Award recipient, associate editor of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and chair of the ASA Technical Committee on Computational Acoustics.
Andrew S. Wixom axw274@psu.edu
The Pennsylvania State University
PO Box 30, Mail Stop 3220
State College, Pennsylvania 16804, USA
Andrew S. Wixom is an assistant research professor in the Structural Acoustics Department of the Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, State College. He received his doctorate in mechanical engineering from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, in 2016. His research includes many aspects of computational acoustics as it relates to vibrations and coupled structural-acoustic simulations, with particular attention on accelerating finite and boundary element computations, uncertainty quantification, and design optimization.
Chris L. Pettit pettitcl@usna.edu
Aerospace Engineering Department
United States Naval Academy
590 Halloway Road, Mail Stop 11-B
Annapolis, Maryland 21402, USA
Chris L. Pettit is a professor and Aerospace Engineering Department Chair at the United States Naval Academy (USNA), Annapolis, Maryland, and an adjunct research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His primary teaching responsibilities are in engineering mechanics, aerospace structural mechanics and materials, and fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Prior to joining the USNA faculty, he was a senior research aerospace engineer in the Air Vehicles Directorate, United States Air Force Research Laboratory. His research interests include uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis, reduced-order modeling and machine learning, model selection, and optimization in nonlinear dynamics and outdoor sound propagation.