Hypersonic flight, near or greater than Mach5 and below altitudes of around 90 km, has been the subject of decades of military research. Critical to national defense, the technology presents any number of challenging hurdles and complications.
CFD Research has been awarded a $10M SBIR Phase III IDIQ contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Munitions Directorate to further develop and apply a unique framework for evolutionary algorithm-based design optimization of guided weapons systems.
CFD Research has been awarded a $1M Army contract to further develop an innovative Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Machine Learning (ML) based computational tool for accurate and rapid prediction of transient turbulent flow, heat transfer and thermal signatures. The survivability of military vehicles and their occupants often depends on efficient control of their thermal infrared (IR) signature as IR emissions, stemming from the thermal load, of military vehicles are used to detect, track, and lock-on to the target. Thermal modeling is typically used in order to predict and achieve performance goals related to the control of IR signatures.
CFD Research Corporation announced today the award of a SBIR Phase II contract from the Air Force to create a novel, efficient, and accurate fully-coupled modeling approach for the aeroelastic analysis of threat-damaged flight surfaces. One of the key aircraft design requirements is aircraft survivability and vulnerability to damage caused by a variety of threat types. Damage which results in the physical removal of a portion of a wing or primary flight control surface undoubtedly leads to a reduction in aerodynamic performance and control degradation.
CFD Research has been awarded a $1.5M Phase II Defense Health Agency (DHA) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to develop extremophile-derived antivirals to protect soldiers and civilians from COVID-19. Selection was based on achievements during previous drug discovery projects and a novel strategy for targeting the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19.
CFD Research awarded three contracts from NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center totaling $1.5M to further develop capabilities used to study plume-regolith interactions for lunar and planetary landers.
CFD Research Corporation announced today the award of a contract from NAVAIR to develop and validate a first-principles based, high-fidelity multiphase CFD tool to predict raindrop distortion and demise in the flow field around a missile in supersonic flight.
CFD Research announces the award of a $1M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to further develop their multiscale simulation toolkit for computational pharmacology of trans/intradermally administered compounds (CPDAC).
CFD Research Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to further develop a design optimization framework based on multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, surrogate models, and hardware acceleration for optimization and design of multi-disciplinary autonomous munition systems.
CFD Research Corporation today announced the award of an Army SBIR Phase II project to develop a novel machine learning (ML) capability for real-time monitoring, prognostics, and control of complex mechanical systems.