Clear Science Corp, a small business, was awarded a $125,000.00 firm-fixed-price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and demonstrate computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based software for designing and evaluating active flow control (AFC) systems on aircraft. The software will facilitate the identification of optimal actuation types and locations, support virtual flight testing with both open- and closed-loop control systems, and enable trade studies...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $99,996.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc. (doing business as Craft-Tech), a small business, to implement and validate liquid/vapor interface turbulence models for use in commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solvers. The contract, which is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III, involves applying damping models to two-layer k-epsilon and...
This is a $124,894.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CFD Research Corporation, a small business, to develop a novel lean fully premixed (LFP) combustor for high overall pressure ratio small core engines. The objective is to design and demonstrate a three-unit fully premixed injector that can address issues of auto-ignition, flashback, and combustion instabilities....
This is a $249,986 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded to Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc. (Craft-Tech), a small business, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III program. The contract is for flow boiling experiments in microgravity using liquid nitrogen, which supports NASA's research and development initiatives. As a Phase III SBIR contract, this award indicates that Craft-Tech has successfully...
This $4,999,071 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Flight Works, Inc., a small business manufacturer of aerospace components and systems. The contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, specifically Phase II, and is focused on developing a high-performance, high-thrust, "green" orbital maneuvering vehicle for lunar and deep space missions. The contract has a period of performance through...
This federal contract award to Spectral Energies LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, is for the development of a meta-model framework to generate fuel-flexible compact chemical kinetic mechanisms for use in 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of high-pressure, low-emissions combustion. The contract, valued at $898,506.00, is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The project...
This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Streamline Numerics, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The contract has a Firm Fixed Price of $124,995.00 to develop a Fidelity-Adaptive Combustion Model (FAM) to be implemented into the LOCI-STREAM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code for use by NASA in simulating rocket combustion. This high-fidelity,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Tribo Flow Separations, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for $123,137.00. The contract is for research on "Nitrogen Atom Concentrations and Molecular Temperatures in Arc Jet Freestreams", which falls under the SBIR program. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Firm Fixed Price pricing type, and the...
This is a $124,986 Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to CFD Research Corporation, a small business specializing in computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, and aerospace engineering. The contract is for the development of a multidisciplinary design tool to model fluid-structure interaction phenomena in advanced turbomachinery components used in liquid rocket propulsion systems. This will enable more accurate...
This federal contract award, valued at $599,944.00, was issued by a U.S. government agency to Advanced Fuel Research, Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a hybrid/pyrolysis/incineration system for solid waste resource recovery. This system is intended to support NASA's exploration life support initiatives, as Advanced Fuel Research has previously delivered trace contaminant sorbents and a torrefaction...