<p>This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Fluidics LLC, a minority-owned small business. The $123,777 fixed-price contract is for the development of "Curved Fluidic Actuators for Turbine Blade Flow Control." The contract was awarded on August 31, 2020 and has a completion date of March 1, 2021. The place of performance is Ellicott City, Maryland.</p>
This federal contract award, valued at $124,990.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Fluidics LLC, a minority-owned small business located in Ellicott City, Maryland. The contract is for the design, fabrication, and testing of two fluidic methods of pulsing fuel flow to enable active combustion instability control, which could improve the performance and efficiency of turbine engines. This Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...
This firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian federal agency, to Spectral Energies LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $124,850 contract is for the design, development, validation, and implementation of a closed-loop, high-bandwidth active flow control technique using high-momentum, resonance-enhanced unsteady microjet actuators on a NASA-EET high-lift airfoil configuration. The objective is to mitigate flow separation...
This federal contract award is for the development of a new type of plasma-based flow control actuator by CU Aerospace, a for-profit limited liability company, and its partner the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The actuator uses a high-voltage electrode that arcs to a cylindrical grounded electrode within a magnetic field, producing an arc plasma with a Lorentz force that creates a plasma disc. This is intended to enhance mixing and flow attachment across adverse pressure gradients,...
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...
This is a SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Actasys Inc., a small business, to develop and test a module containing an array of synthetic jet actuators (SJA) for active flow control (AFC) technology on commercial aircraft. The 18-month, $749,999 firm-fixed-price contract involves collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Michigan, and The Boeing Company to improve actuator power output and prepare...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Actasys Inc. to develop computational models and a data management platform for advancing the design and performance validation of active flow control (AFC) systems using synthetic jet actuators. The $122,467.00 contract aims to establish a feedback loop between new computational models, lab tests, and field experiments to mature AFC actuation system...
This is a $122,140.00 firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Lynntech Inc., a small business, for the development of a technology using pulsed plasma actuators to generate turbulent boundary layer perturbations that can induce significant skin-friction drag reduction for aerodynamic applications. The proposed solution aims to address the practical barriers of existing drag reduction approaches by providing a lightweight, simple, and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Virtual Aerosurface Technologies, Inc. (VAST) on June 9, 2017. The $123,796.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a novel variant of pulsed blowing active flow control using chemically-based flow control actuators. The proposed system aims to create high-impulse pulsed jets from discrete reaction chambers with a flowable...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to CU Aerospace LLC, a small business located in Champaign, Illinois. The $124,991.00 contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program and aims to develop a new type of plasma-based flow control actuator. The actuator uses a high-voltage electrode that arcs to a grounded cylindrical electrode within a magnetic field, creating a plasma disc that can...