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Jun 5, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX17CL48P541712IGF::OT::IGF COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) SIMULATIONS ARE EXTENSIVELY USED BY NASA FOR HYPERSONIC AEROTHERMODYNAMICS CALCULATIONS. THE PHYSICAL MODELS USED IN CFD CODES AND INITIAL/BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS CARRY SIGNIFICANT UNCERTAINTIES. THERE ARE ALSO INHERENT ERRORS IN EXPERIMENTS DESIGNED FOR MODEL VALIDATION, AND NUMERICAL DISCRETIZATION. DESPITE THIS KNOWLEDGE, ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF EFFORTS HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN TO FORMALLY CHARACTERIZE THESE UNCERTAINTIES AND TO EVALUATE THEIR IMPACT ON THE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY OF CFD TOOLS FOR HYPERSONIC APPLICATIONS SUCH AS ISOLATOR DYNAMICS. MAJOR CHALLENGES WITH UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION FOR SUCH SIMULATIONS INCLUDE LACK OF SUFFICIENT DATA TO CHARACTERIZE THE ASSOCIATED UNCERTAINTIES IN THE ISOLATOR DYNAMICS PHENOMENA AND THE COMPUTATIONAL COST OF THE REQUIRED LARGE NUMBER OF CASES. CFDRC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VIRGINIA TECH AND UTSI PROPOSES TO DIRECTLY ADDRESS THESE ISSUES AND DELIVER AN NON-INTRUSIVE TOOL FOR UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION THAT CAN BE INTEGRATED WITH THE STATE-OF-THE-ART CFD TOOLS CURRENTLY UTILIZED BY NASA AND ITS CUSTOMERS. DURING PHASE I, THIS TEAM WILL DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE A DIMENSIONALLY ADAPTIVE SPARSE GRID APPROACH FOR UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION COUPLED WITH NASA LARC VULCAN-CFD CODE. IN PHASE I, THE DEVELOPED TOOL WILL BE DEMONSTRATED ON THE TEST RIG DEVELOPED AND CHARACTERIZED AT THE NASA-LARC ISOLATOR DYNAMICS RESEARCH LAB. SURROGATE MODELS INCLUDING POLYNOMIAL RESPONSE SURFACE AND GRADIENT-ENHANCED KRIGING WILL BE DEVELOPED BASED UPON THE SAMPLES GENERATED FROM THE ADAPTIVELY SPARSE GRID ALGORITHM, THEREBY PROVIDING A MODELING TOOL TO ESTIMATE THE OPERABILITY OF ISOLATOR OVER THE RELEVANT FLIGHT REGIME AND ULTIMATELY TO OPTIMIZE DESIGN OF ISOLATOR TO PREVENT SCRAMJET UNSTART. IN PHASE II, THE FRAMEWORK WILL BE FURTHER DEVELOPED TO INCLUDE UNCOMMON PROBABILITY DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS, AND WILL BE VALIDATED AND DEMONSTRATED ON MORE COMPLEX PROBLEMS.$125K
Jun 5, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX17CL49P541712IGF::OT::IGF DESPITE THE RAPID COMMERCIALIZATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS SELECTIVE LASER MELTING, SLM, THERE ARE GAPS IN MODELS FOR MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROPERTY PREDICTION THAT SLOW QUALIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION. IMPROVEMENTS IN COUPLING MICROSTRUCTURE PREDICTION MODELS TO LOCAL PROCESS CONDITIONS, VALIDATION, AND CONTROL OF MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURE ARE REQUIRED TO MATURE THE STATE OF THE ART. TO ADDRESS THESE NEEDS, CFDRC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WILL DEVELOP AND APPLY MODELING AND SIMULATION TOOLS FOR PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF MICROSTRUCTURE IN SLM FABRICATED PARTS. THE PHASE I EFFORT WILL ESTABLISH CRITICAL SOFTWARE ELEMENTS, MODELING METHODOLOGY, AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS REQUIRED FOR PHASE II. WE WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF HIGH-FIDELITY MODELS THAT ARE CAPABLE OF PREDICTING THE FORMATION OF KEY METALLURGICAL MICROSTRUCTURES OBSERVED IN SLM ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AS A FUNCTION OF THE LOCAL THERMAL ENVIRONMENT AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS WITHIN THE AS-BUILT COMPONENT, REDUCED MODELS FOR MAPPING PROCESS CONDITIONS TO ADDITIONAL MICROSTRUCTURE FEATURES IMPACTING MATERIAL QUALITY, AND POTENTIALLY CONTROLLING MATERIAL QUALITY THROUGHOUT A SAMPLE AS-BUILT PART. THE PHASE II PROGRAM WILL FOCUS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFFICIENT, VALIDATED HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATION CODES AND REDUCED MODELS PROVIDING THE MEANS TO REDUCE VARIABILITY IN AS-BUILT MATERIAL MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES, AND CULMINATE WITH THE DELIVERY TO THESE TOOLS TO NASA RESEARCHERS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS.$125K
Jun 5, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-RSAW31P4Q17C0039541712IGF::OT::IGF--ARMY SBIR PHASE II, ENTITLED, "AUTOMATED AND DYNAMIC ACCESS CONTROL (ADAC) TO CRITICAL MISSILE SYSTEMS DATA", CFD RESEARCH CORP.$362K
Jun 1, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX17CC33P541712IGF::OT::IGF VARIOUS ATTEMPTS TO ADVANCE HIGH-ORDER MESH GENERATION TECHNOLOGY HAVE BEEN MADE IN RECENT YEARS, HOWEVER AN INTEGRATED SOLUTION CAPABLE OF ROBUSTLY CREATING OPTIMAL CURVED ELEMENT MESHES IN 3D STILL DOES NOT EXIST. IN THIS SBIR PROJECT, CFDRC WILL DEVELOP A SOFTWARE TOOL FOR THE GENERATION OF MESHES FORMED BY HIGH-ORDER ELEMENTS. OUR APPROACH CONSISTS OF (A) LINEAR MESH GENERATION AND IMPORT, (B) RECONSTRUCTION OF CURVED BOUNDARY USING NURBS AND BZIER SURFACES AND OPTIMAL HIGH-ORDER NODAL DISTRIBUTION; (C) VOLUMETRIC DEFORMATION USING ELASTICITY ANALOGY WITH IMPOSED BOUNDARY DISPLACEMENT ON CURVED PART OF THE BOUNDARY; AND (D) EXPORT AND DISPLAY CAPABILITY OF FINAL MESH. PHASE I WILL DEVELOP AN ADVANCED NURBS FITTING PROCEDURE AND BZIER SURFACE METHOD FOR RETAINING BOUNDARY GEOMETRY AND WILL DEMONSTRATE THE SOLUTION OF BOTH LINEAR AND NONLINEAR ELASTICITY ANALOGY TO ACCOMMODATE CURVED ELEMENTS AND RETAIN HIGH QUALITY FOR BOTH ORTHOGONAL AND STRETCHED LINEAR MESHES. THE RESULTANT IMPROVED ACCURACY WILL BE DEMONSTRATED USING TWO HIGH-ORDER CFD CODES, INCLUDING FUN3D WITH HIGH-ORDER SCHEME IMPLEMENTED BY CFDRC, AND A HIGH-ORDER DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN CODE. PHASE II WILL FULLY DEVELOP THE SOFTWARE AND BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN LINEAR MESH GENERATION AND HIGH-ORDER CFD PREDICTIONS FOR COMPLEX CONFIGURATIONS. PARALLEL ALGORITHMS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED TO ENABLE EXECUTION ON NASA HPC CLUSTERS. PHASE II WILL ALSO INCREASE THE TRL BY INTEGRATING WITH HIGH-ORDER CFD CODES FOR DEMONSTRATION ON LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS.$125K
Jun 1, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX17CM22P541712IGF::OT::IGF LAUNCH VEHICLES EXPERIENCE EXTREME ACOUSTIC LOADS DOMINATED BY ROCKET EXHAUST PLUME INTERACTIONS WITH GROUND STRUCTURES DURING LIFT-OFF, WHICH CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING VIBRO-ACOUSTIC LOADS ON THE VEHICLE AND PAYLOADS IF NOT PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD AND MITIGATED AGAINST. EXISTING CAPABILITIES FOR MODELING THE TURBULENT PLUME PHYSICS DURING EARLY LIFT-OFF ARE TOO DISSIPATIVE TO ACCURATELY RESOLVE THE PROPAGATION OF ACOUSTIC WAVES THROUGHOUT THE LAUNCH ENVIRONMENT. HIGHER FIDELITY NON-DISSIPATIVE ANALYSIS TOOLS ARE CRITICALLY NEEDED TO DESIGN MITIGATION MEASURES (SUCH AS WATER DELUGE) AND LAUNCH PAD GEOMETRY FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE LAUNCH VEHICLES. THIS PROJECT WILL BUILD UPON EXISTING CAPABILITIES TO DEVELOP AND DELIVER BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES TO DRASTICALLY IMPROVE PREDICTIONS OF TRANSIENT ACOUSTIC LOADING FOR LAUNCH VEHICLES IN MOTION DURING EARLY LIFT-OFF. INNOVATIVE HYBRID CFD/CAA TECHNIQUES BASED ON RANS/LES MODELING FOR ACOUSTIC GENERATION PHYSICS AND AN UNSTRUCTURED DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD WILL BE EMPLOYED TO MODEL LONG DISTANCE ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION ALONG WITH VEHICLE MOTION USING IDEALLY-SUITED HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE SCHEMES. THIS NEW PARADIGM ENABLES: (1) GREATLY REDUCED DISSIPATION AND DISPERSION; (2) IMPROVED MODELING OF ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS WITH COMPLEX GEOMETRY; AND (3) AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF TRANSIENT ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING VEHICLE MOTION. MERITS OF THIS APPROACH WILL BE INVESTIGATED AND DEMONSTRATED DURING PHASE I. IN PHASE II, THE METHODOLOGY WILL BE REFINED AND VALIDATED AGAINST REALISTIC TARGETED APPLICATIONS.$125K
Jun 1, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX17CM23P541712IGF::OT::IGF SOLID ROCKET MOTOR (SRM) DESIGN REQUIRES THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF THE SLAG ACCUMULATION PROCESS IN ORDER TO: PREDICT THRUST CONTINUITY, OPTIMIZE PROPELLANT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY, PREDICT CONING EFFECTS FROM SLOSHING, AND ASSESS POTENTIAL ORBITAL DEBRIS (SLAG) HAZARD. CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART MODELS FOR SRM ENVIRONMENT DO NOT HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO SIMULATE THE ACCUMULATION AND DYNAMICS OF SLAG IN SRMS AS THEY RELY ON A LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE APPROACH THAT IS ONLY CAPABLE OF PREDICTING THE LOCATION OF ACCUMULATION. IN THIS STTR EFFORT, CFDRC WILL TEAM UP WITH MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY AND TETRA RESEARCH TO DEVELOP MODELS FOR QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF SLAG ACCUMULATION AND DYNAMICS ON SRM PERFORMANCE. TO ENHANCE CURRENT SLAG MODELING CAPABILITIES, AN EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN APPROACH TO ACCURATELY MODEL A SLAG-PHASE IS PROPOSED, IN WHICH LAGRANGIAN PARTICLES CAN BE CONVERTED TO AN EULERIAN DESCRIPTION AND VICE-VERSA. THE PHASE I PROJECT AIMS AT DEVELOPING THE BASIC NUMERICAL MODEL FOR THE TRANSPORT AND ACCUMULATION OF A SLAG-PHASE IN LOCI/CHEM. THE MULTIPHASE FRAMEWORK, COMPRISING OF GAS-PHASE, A DENSE SLAG-PHASE, AND LAGRANGIAN PARTICLES REPRESENTING ALUMINUM AND ALUMINA, WILL BE DEVELOPED AND DEMONSTRATED IN THE PHASE I EFFORT WITH A TRL STARTING AT 2 AND ENDING AT 3. IN PHASE II, THE MODELS WILL BE EXTENDED AND VALIDATED TO PROVIDE AN ACCURATE NUMERICAL APPROACH FOR SLAG DYNAMICS THAT INCORPORATES MANY OF THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA PRESENT DURING SRM OPERATION, INCLUDING THE TRANSFER FROM EULERIAN TO LAGRANGIAN DESCRIPTION OF SLAG AT BURNOUT, INCREASING THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL BY THE END OF A PHASE II PROJECT FROM 3 TO 5.$125K
May 31, 2017Department of DefenseNAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIVN6833517C0400541712RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IGF::OT::IGF$125K
May 31, 2017Department of DefenseFA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZLFA865017P5029541711IGF::OT::IGF COUPLED MULTI-PHYSICS TOOL FOR ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL PROFILE DISRUPTION EFFECTS OF AEROVEHICLES$150K
May 24, 2017Department of DefenseW4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACTW81XWH17C0018541712IGF::CT::IGF ARMY SBIR PHASE II(C) AWARD$500K
May 23, 2017Department of DefenseFA2487 AFTC PZZD (EGLIN)FA248716C0327541380IGF::OT::IGF SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR II) - PHYSICS BASED FAST RUNNING TOOL$75K
Apr 20, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX17CG10C541712IGF::OT::IGF FUTURE NASA SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION MISSIONS REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN POWER MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION (PMAD) SYSTEMS. SPACE QUALIFIED, HIGH VOLTAGE POWER ELECTRONICS CAN LEAD TO HIGHER EFFICIENCY AND REDUCED MASS AT THE SPACECRAFT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE LEVEL, AND SERVE AS AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS SUCH AS SOLAR ELECTRIC PROPULSION. SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) IS A ROBUST TECHNOLOGY WITH SUPERIOR ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES FOR POWER APPLICATIONS. SIC DEVICES OFFER HIGHER TEMPERATURE OPERATION, LOWER ON-RESISTANCE, HIGHER BREAKDOWN VOLTAGES, AND HIGHER POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY THAN SILICON DEVICES. HOWEVER, HIGH VULNERABILITY TO HEAVY-ION INDUCED DEGRADATION AND CATASTROPHIC FAILURE HAS PRECLUDED THIS TECHNOLOGY FROM SPACE PMAD APPLICATIONS. IMPORTANTLY, PHYSICAL MECHANISMS FOR THIS VULNERABILITY ARE NOT WELL UNDERSTOOD, RESULTING IN THE INABILITY TO DEVELOP RADIATION HARDENED SIC DEVICES. CFDRC, IN COLLABORATION WITH VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY AND WOLFSPEED, IS APPLYING A COUPLED EXPERIMENTAL AND PHYSICS-BASED MODELING APPROACH TO ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE. IN PHASE I, WE PERFORMED ELECTRICAL AND HEAVY ION TESTS ON 1200V WOLFSPEED SIC JBS DIODES TO GENERATE RESPONSE DATA, AND PERFORMED TCAD SIMULATIONS TO INVESTIGATE DIODE SENSITIVITY TO DESIGN PARAMETERS AND ANALYZE ELECTRO-THERMAL MECHANISMS BEHIND MEASURED RESPONSE. IN PHASE II, WE WILL DEVELOP FURTHER INSIGHT INTO PHYSICAL MECHANISMS IN THE DIODES VIA DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF ADVANCED PHYSICS MODELS. WE WILL PARAMETRICALLY ANALYZE DESIGN FEATURES TO IDENTIFY PROMISING HARDNESS SOLUTIONS, WHICH WILL THEN BE FABRICATED AND EXPERIMENTALLY CHARACTERIZED. WE WILL ALSO PERFORM HEAVY-ION TESTING OF 1200V SIC MOSFETS AND APPLY SIMULATIONS FOR INSIGHTS INTO GOVERNING MECHANISMS (TO BE FURTHER DEVELOPED IN FOLLOW ON WORK). DIRECT PARTICIPATION BY WOLFSPEED IN PHASE II AND BEYOND WILL ENSURE SPACE-QUALIFIED, SIC POWER DEVICES FOR NASA APPLICATIONS.$750K
Apr 20, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-APG DURHAMW911NF16C0081541712IGF::OT::IGF FIRST MONTHLY TECHNICAL REPORT$500K
Apr 3, 2017Department of DefenseMISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)HQ014717C7414541712::IGF::OT::IGF SBIR/STTR PHASE II R&D$997K
Mar 30, 2017Department of DefenseOFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCHN0001416P3034541712IGF::CT::IGF SBIRSOL2016.1$70K
Mar 29, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-RSA0001541712IGF::CT::IGF$550K
Mar 9, 2017Department of DefenseMISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)HQ014717C7604541712IGF::OT::IGF SBIR/STTR PHASE I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT$100K
Mar 8, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX14CM45C541712IGF::OT::IGF LAUNCH VEHICLES EXPERIENCE EXTREME ACOUSTIC LOADS DURING LIFTOFF DRIVEN BY THE INTERACTION OF ROCKET PLUMES AND PLUME-GENERATED ACOUSTIC WAVES WITH GROUND STRUCTURES. CURRENTLY EMPLOYED PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES ARE TOO DISSIPATIVE TO ACCURATELY RESOLVE THE PROPAGATION OF WAVES THROUGHOUT THE LAUNCH ENVIRONMENT. HIGHER FIDELITY NON-DISSIPATIVE ANALYSIS TOOLS ARE CRITICALLY NEEDED TO DESIGN MITIGATION MEASURES (SUCH AS WATER DELUGE) AND LAUNCH PAD GEOMETRY FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE NASA AND COMMERCIAL LAUNCH VEHICLES. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AND DELIVER BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES TO DRASTICALLY IMPROVE ACOUSTIC LOADS PREDICTIONS. AN INNOVATIVE HYBRID CFD AND COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTICS (CFD/CAA) METHOD WILL BE DEVELOPED WHERE ESTABLISHED RANS/LES MODELING WILL BE USED FOR PREDICTING THE ACOUSTIC GENERATION PHYSICS, AND A HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE UNSTRUCTURED DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN (DG) METHOD WILL BE EMPLOYED TO PROPAGATE ACOUSTIC WAVES ACROSS LARGE DISTANCES USING IDEALLY SUITED HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE SCHEMES. THIS NEW PARADIGM ENABLES: (1) IMPROVED FIDELITY OVER LINEAR METHODS; (2) GREATLY REDUCED NUMERICAL DISSIPATION AND DISPERSION; AND (3) IMPROVED ACOUSTICS MODELING FOR ATTENUATION, DIFFRACTION, AND REFLECTION FROM COMPLEX GEOMETRY. A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT WAS DEVELOPED AND SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED DURING PHASE I FOR BENCHMARK APPLICATIONS AS WELL AS SLS PROTOTYPE MODEL LAUNCH ENVIRONMENTS. PHASE II WILL DELIVER PRODUCTION CFD/CAA PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES WITH 4TH-ORDER SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ACCURACY FOR NEAR LOSSLESS ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION THROUGHOUT THE LAUNCH ENVIRONMENT, WHICH WILL PROVIDE NASA ENGINEERS WITH MORE THAN A TWO-FOLD INCREASE IN THE RANGE OF RESOLVABLE FREQUENCIES OVER CURRENT METHODS.$247K
Mar 2, 2017Department of DefenseFA9300 AFTC PZRFA930017C2501541712IGF::OT::IGF STTR PHASE II MEASUREMENT AND MODELING OF SURFACE COKING IN FUEL-FILM COOL$563K
Feb 23, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-RSAW31P4Q17C0030541712IGF::OT::IGF ARMY SBIR PHASE II FOR THE EFFORT ENTITLED "REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC WEATHER/PROPAGATION LOSS MODEL"$489K
Feb 22, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-RSAW31P4Q17C0025541712IGF::OT::IGF ARMY SBIR PHASE II FOR WORK ENTITLED - A HYPERSONIC ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS TOOL (HEAT).$517K
Feb 1, 2017Department of DefenseFA9300 AFTC PZRFA930017C2008541712IGF::OT::IGF SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION PLAN FOR MOLECULAR DESIGN OF ENERGETIC MATERIALS$400K
Jan 19, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-RSA0001541712IGF::CT::IGF$32K
Jan 18, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-APG NATICKW911QY17C0008541712IGF::OT::IGF PHASE II SBIR$500K
Jan 18, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-APG DURHAMW911NF17C0026541712IGF::OT::IGF$500K
Jan 12, 2017Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-RSAW31P4Q16C0012541712IGF::OT::IGF ARMY SBIR PH II ENTITLED "NOVEL CATHODES FOR HIGH CAPACITY THERMAL BATTERY".$500K
Dec 19, 2016Department of DefenseW4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACTW81XWH15C0148541712IGF::OT::IGF ARMY PHASE I PROPOSAL A151-055-0482$50K
Dec 16, 2016National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX14CA66P541712IGF::OT::IGF NASA IS INVESTIGATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE CARBON FABRICS FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN DEPLOYABLE AEROSHELLS USED IN ENTRY, DESCENT AND LANDING. THE CARBON FABRIC AND THE JOINTS BETWEEN FABRIC PANELS ON THE AEROSHELL NEED TO WITHSTAND THE HARSH AEROTHERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURAL LOADING ENVIRONMENTS IMPARTED BY HIGH SPEED ENTRIES INTO PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. ONE OF THE KEY CHALLENGES FACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEPLOYABLE AEROSHELLS CONSTRUCTED FROM CARBON CLOTH IS THE JOINING OF GORE SECTIONS TO CLOSE-OUT THE AEROSHELL STRUCTURE AND TO INTERFACE WITH UNDERLYING RIGID STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE STITCHING USED TO JOIN GORE SECTIONS BE CAPABLE OF MAINTAINING INTEGRITY AT HIGH TEMPERATURE, WHICH SUGGESTS THAT CARBON FIBER THREADS WILL BE NEEDED. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT MULTILAYER FABRICS CAN BE STITCHED IN INCREMENTAL LAYERS, SO THAT FAILURE OF THE TOP LAYER DOES NOT COMPROMISE THE ENTIRE STACK. HOWEVER, STITCHING WITH CARBON THREAD IS CHALLENGING, AS THE HANDLING AND STRESS INVOLVED IN THE STITCHING PROCESS TENDS TO ADVERSELY AFFECT ITS STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES, LEADING TO LOW SEAM STRENGTH. CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION (CFDRC) AND THIN RED LINE AEROSPACE (TRLA), THROUGH NASA SBIR PHASE I, PHASE II, AND PHASE II ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS (NNX11CA28C) HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING NASA FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A HIGHLY SCALABLE, MASS-OPTIMIZED UHPVBASED INFLATABLE STRUCTURE. CFDRC AND TRLA HAVE BEEN ALSO SUPPORTING NASA FOR APPLYING UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY FOR TPS STITCHING. THIS PROPOSAL IS AN EXTENSION OF THAT EFFORT. CFDRC AND TRLA ARE SENDING THIS PROPOSAL RESPONDING TO NASA S RELEASED STATEMENT OF WORK, DATED JUNE 25, 2014 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CARBON FABRIC STITCHED SEAM.$32K
Dec 13, 2016Department of DefenseFA9101 AEDC PKP PROCRMNT BRFA910116C0001541712IGF::OT::IGF CFD RESEARCH CORP SBIR 2$375K
Dec 7, 2016Department of DefenseCOMMANDERM6785415C6501541330IGF::OT::IGF SBIR PHASE II RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$349K
Dec 6, 2016Department of DefenseOFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCHN0001417P2013541712SBIRSOL2016.2 IGF::CT::IGF$80K
Nov 28, 2016Department of DefenseFA9101 AEDC PKP PROCRMNT BRFA910113C0014541712IGF::OT::IGF SBIR CRP/STTP 2012-22 ACCURATE INSENSITIVE MUNITIONS TOOL COUPLING DETAILED CHEMICAL KINETICS AND PHYSICAL MODELS$920K
Nov 14, 2016Department of DefenseFA9302 AFTC PZZFA930216C0018541712IGF::OT::IGF REAL-TIME ANALYSIS TOOL BASED ON SURROGATE MODELS FOR ACCURATE PREDICTION OF COMBINED FLIGHT EXTERNAL LOADS SBIR PHASE II$80K
Oct 28, 2016Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-APG DURHAMW911NF16P0008541712IGF::OT::IGF SBIR PHASE I$50K
Oct 14, 2016Department of DefenseNAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIVN6833517C0088541712SBIR PII.5 R&D. IGF::OT::IGF$500K
Oct 4, 2016Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-APG NATICKW911QY16P0049541712IGF::OT::IGF$50K
Sep 27, 2016National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTERNNX16CG63C541712IGF::OT::IGF HIGH-ENERGY SPACE RADIATION FROM GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS AND SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS (SPES) POSE SIGNIFICANT RISKS TO EQUIPMENT AND ASTRONAUT HEALTH IN NASA MISSIONS. ENERGETIC PARTICLES FROM SPES ASSOCIATED WITH FLARES AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS (CMES) MAY ADVERSELY AFFECT NOT ONLY BEYOND-LOW-EARTH-ORBIT MISSIONS, BUT ALSO AIRCRAFT AVIONICS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND AIRLINE CREW/PASSENGER HEALTH. IT IS CRUCIAL TO DEVELOP A CAPABILITY TO FORECAST SPES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON SYSTEMS TO GUIDE PLANNING OF MISSION-RELATED TASKS AND RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES. CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION (CFDRC), UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE (UAH), AND VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (VU) PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE FORECASTING CAPABILITY - SPE FORECAST (SPE4) - COMPRISING STATE-OF-THE-ART MODULES INTEGRATED WITHIN A NOVEL COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK. SPE4 WILL INCLUDE: (A) THE MAG4 CODE FOR PROBABILITY FORECASTS OF FLARES/CMES, AND SPES, (B) THE PATH CODE FOR SOLAR PARTICLE TRANSPORT THROUGH THE HELIOSPHERE, (C) GEANT4-BASED TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS INCLUDING GEOMAGNETIC MODULATION AND ATMOSPHERIC INTERACTIONS (FOR AVIONICS) TO YIELD SPECTRA OF SPE-INDUCED ENERGETIC PROTONS/HEAVY IONS, INTERFACED TO (D) THE CR?ME96 CODE FOR CALCULATION OF RESULTING EFFECTS IN ELECTRONICS. IN PHASE I, WE DEMONSTRATED THE SUPERIOR CAPABILITY OF MAG4, PATH, AND GEANT4 FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE TASKS USING A PRIOR SOLAR EVENT CASE. A CONTROLLER SCRIPT WAS DEVELOPED FOR AUTOMATED CODE EXECUTION AND DATA TRANSFER ACROSS INTERFACES. FUNCTIONALITY OF THE OVERALL EVENT-TO-EFFECTS CAPABILITY WAS DEMONSTRATED USING THE 28-SEP-2012 EVENT. WE DEVELOPED A CONCEPT OF THE FINAL SOFTWARE PRODUCT FOR NASA BASED ON CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE. IN PHASE II, WE WILL COLLABORATE WITH VU TO INTERFACE CALCULATED PARTICLE SPECTRA WITH CR?ME96 TO DETERMINE SINGLE-EVENT EFFECTS IN ELECTRONICS. WE WILL ENHANCE ROBUSTNESS, ACCURACY, AND EXECUTION SPEED VIA IMPROVED MODELS AND PROCEDURES, AND DEMONSTRATE THE SOFTWARE FOR PERSISTENT 24X7 SPE MONITORING.$750K
Sep 26, 2016Department of DefenseFA9302 AFTC PZZFA930216C0018541712IGF::OT::IGF REAL-TIME ANALYSIS TOOL BASED ON SURROGATE MODELS FOR ACCURATE PREDICTION OF COMBINED FLIGHT EXTERNAL LOADS SBIR PHASE II$670K
Sep 16, 2016Department of DefenseW4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACTW81XWH16C0106541711IGF::OT::IGF NEW DHP SBIR PH II AWARD TITLED: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY BASED TOOLS FOR MODELING PLATELET STORAGE LESION FOR OPTIMAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION.$1000K
Sep 14, 2016Department of Health and Human ServicesNIH NCIHHSN261201600031C541711IGF::OT::IGF SBIR PHASE II TOPIC 328: SYNVIVO-TUMOR: A PHYSIOLOGICAL 3D MODEL OF THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT$1.5M
Sep 14, 2016Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-APG NATICKW911QY16P0389541712FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT BASE PERIOD IGF::OT::IGF$100K
Sep 12, 2016Department of DefenseFA2487 AFTC PZZD (EGLIN)FA248716C0327541380IGF::OT::IGF SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR II) - PHYSICS BASED FAST RUNNING TOOL$362K
Sep 12, 2016Department of DefenseFA2487 AFTC PZZD (EGLIN)FA248716C0327541380IGF::OT::IGF SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR II) - PHYSICS BASED FAST RUNNING TOOL$1K
Sep 8, 2016Department of DefenseW6QK ACC-RSAW31P4Q16C0012541712IGF::OT::IGF ARMY SBIR PH II ENTITLED "NOVEL CATHODES FOR HIGH CAPACITY THERMAL BATTERY".$65K
Sep 8, 2016Department of DefenseW4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACTW81XWH16C0083541712IGF::OT::IGF PROPOSAL H161-005-0059$150K
Aug 10, 2016National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTERNNM16AC34P541330IGF::OT::IGF STTR PHASE III FOR VOF DEVELOPMENT$125K
Aug 10, 2016National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTERNNM16AD20P541330IGF::OT::IGF STTR PHASE III FOR THE GAS GRANULAR FLOW SOLVER (GGFS) AND COUPLING DEVELOPMENT$125K
Aug 9, 2016Department of DefenseW4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACTW81XWH16C0094541712IGF::OT::IGF STTR DHP PHASE I PROPOSAL H16A-001-0002$150K
Aug 4, 2016Department of DefenseFA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZLFA865016M6737541712IGF::OT::IGF SBIR I: GLOBAL-LOCAL MODELING OF AIRCRAFT OCCUPANT SAFETY ASSESSMENT DURING EJECTION$150K
Jul 21, 2016Department of DefenseFA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZLFA865016P2703541712IGF::OT::IGF DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTIVE CLOSURE MODELS FOR LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS OF LEAN BLOW-OUT CONDITIONS$150K
Jul 15, 2016Department of DefenseMISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)HQ014716C7809541712IGF::OT::IGF STTR PHASE II RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT$998K

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