Cooperative Agreement AP23WSNWRC00C022

This $255,843 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund research and development of an integrated high lift propulsor to enable affordable and energy-efficient advanced air mobility aircraft designs. Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development Inc. will conduct wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations from August 2022 to July 2023 to characterize aerodynamic interactions between a propeller and wing...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Purdue Applied Research Institute, LLC (PARI) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The funding supports the development of novel testing methods for measuring critical gas phase interactions in hypersonic ground test environments. The project aims to maintain technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force by advancing scientific...

Seaflight Technologies Inc. will develop novel aerodynamic circulation control technologies for electric aircraft wings through this $275,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The one-year project will advance research and development of high-lift wing designs using electric jet circulation control to increase maximum lift coefficients and enable longer range for small electric aircraft. Computational...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $7,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Michigan under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop advanced spacecraft propulsion modeling and thermal control technologies. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in areas such as spacecraft propulsion modeling, thermal control, the use of molecular propellants, and power conversion for long-pulse Hall thrusters. The University of Michigan is...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $4,381,885 Cooperative Agreement to Missouri State University on June 6, 2024 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The objective of this 26-month award is to design, manufacture, and verify the performance of a sub-component with features representative of the more complex geometries contained in typical hypersonic vehicle components. This research aims to enable the manufacture of affordable high-temperature...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $250,000 will fund research at the University of Southern California to develop a proof-of-concept prototype for an immersive and interactive three-dimensional display using swarms of flying light specks (FLS). The prototype will investigate techniques and algorithms to enable synchronized swarms of micro-drone FLS to render objects in a specified 3D volume that a user can touch and manipulate. Known as FLS-Matter, the project will create 2D...

This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $1,600,589.00 to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to conduct research on a "HYPERSONIC MACH10OD FLIGHT EXPERIMENT FOR HIGH-SPEED PROPULSION DETONATION FUNDAMENTALS." The award period runs from February 15, 2025 to February 14, 2026. The objective of this research is to advance the scientific understanding of high-speed propulsion...

This $370,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville to improve understanding of wildfire behavior in heterogeneous fuel mixtures from July 2022 to June 2025. The research aims to identify key physical and chemical processes controlling ignition and spread of fire in mixtures of living and dead fuels through controlled experiments and computational simulations. Lasers and other...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant (CFDA 11.609 - Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Programs) to Jensen Hughes Inc. to develop an improved computational fire modeling tool using the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). The key activities include: Implementing an improved simplified scaling-based pyrolysis model in the NIST FDS to enhance fire growth predictions. Conducting and documenting heat transfer experiments for...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $274,929 will support Morphobotics LLC to develop an automated sub-canopy 3D forest mapping solution using uncrewed aerial vehicles. The goal is to produce a high-fidelity, open-source UAV exploration environment with 3D mapping capabilities meeting payload constraints for use in prescribed forest burn environmental assessments and spatial fire modeling. This addresses a need under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program's...