| Abstract Scope |
The Naval environment is very aggressive. Seawater affects nearly all structural materials to some extent. Marine corrosion is dependent on a number of factors such as environmental zone, alloy composition, water or fuel chemistry, pH, biofouling, microbiological organisms, pollution and contamination, alloy surface films, geometry and surface roughness, galvanic interactions, fluid velocity characteristics and mode, oxygen content, heat transfer rate, quality of air intake, and temperature. Understanding how these factors both at ambient and at temperatures approaching 1000-1500C may influence corrosion in the marine environment will provide keys to mitigation and control efforts. Computational and physical modeling of these effects combined with machine learning and experimental validation can provide insight and guidance to comprehend major and minor elements influencing corrosion that can subsequently provide a pathway to the creation and development of new materials and emerging corrosion control technologies. |