CFD Research Corp

MICROSYSTEMS INDUCED CATALYSIS (MICA)

MACHINE LEARNING FOR OPEN SYSTEMS

PHASE II SBIR - RADIATION HARDENED POWER EFFICIENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING (AIML) PROCESSOR

NRE

EXPERTISE DEVELOPED UNDER THIS TASK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITIES FOR BOTH AERONAUTICS AND SPACE EXPLORATION, WILL SUPPORT TASKS SUCH AS SIMULATIONS OF URBAN AIR MOBILITY VEHICLES, ANALYSIS OF VERTICAL LIFT SYSTEMS FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION, MODELING OF HYPERSONIC FLOW ENVIRONMENTS FOR SPACECRAFT HEAT SHIELDS, AND OTHER EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES OF INTEREST TO THE NASA ENTERPRISE. CONTRACTOR SHALL SERVE IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN GROUP MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS IN TECHNICAL RESEARCH. SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF URBAN AIR MOBILITY INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF TILTWING AND TILT-DUCT VEHICLE CONCEPTS, OVERSET GRIDS ON THE BASIS OF CAD GEOMETRY INCLUDING ROTOR BLADES, LANDING GEAR, MAIN FUSELAGE, CONTROL SURFACES, ETC. THE QUIET SINGLE-MAIN ROTOR (QSMR) VEHICLE CONCEPT IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE. HIGH-FIDELITY CFD SIMULATIONS WILL ALSO BE APPLIED TO TILT-DUCT/TILTWING VEHICLES AS PART OF THE REVOLUTIONARY VERTICAL LIFT TECHNOLOGY (RVLT) PROJECT. COUPLED CAMRADII-OVERFLOW SIMULATIONS WILL BE RUN FOR DIFFERENT RVLT UAM CONCEPTS. ANOPP2-AARON WILL BE USED FOR AEROACOUSTIC SIMULATIONS. MID-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS USING THE ACTUATOR DISK MODEL IN OVERFLOW WILL BE RUN FOR THE RVLT UAM CONCEPT VEHICLES. HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS OF THE DRAGONFLY ROTORCRAFT LANDER TO TITAN WILL BE CONDUCTED. OVERSET GRID GENERATION, GEOMETRY CLEANUP, AND BLADE MODELING FOR THE GEOMETRY WILL BE PERFORMED. THE BACKSHELL OF THE HEATSHIELD WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED IN THE GEOMETRY MODELING PROCESS. SIMULATIONS OF THE ROTORCRAFT IN DIFFERENT FLIGHT CONDITIONS WILL BE CONDUCTED INCLUDING HOVER, CRUISE, FLYOVER, DESCENT, ETC. TWO SPECIFIC SECTIONS OF THE ENTRY, DESCENT, AND LANDING (EDL) FOR DRAGONFLY WILL BE SIMULATED – PREPARATION TO POWERED FLIGHT (PPF) AND TRANSITION TO POWERED FLIGHT (TPF) WITH THE ROTORCRAFT, BACKSHELL, AND ATTACHMENT RODS USING THE HIGH-FIDELITY FLOW SOLVER, OVERFLOW. THIS EFFORT INCLUDES AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS, COMPARISON WITH WIND TUNNEL TEST DATA, AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE RESULTS. ADDITIONALLY, CONTRACTOR SHALL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROPOSALS ON MODELING, SIMULATION, AND DATA ANALYSIS OF SOLAR/STELLAR PHYSICS TO UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS OF SPACE WEATHER, PREDICT GLOBAL SOLAR ACTIVITY, AND DETECT EARTH-TYPE EXOPLANETS AROUND SOLAR-TYPE STARS THAT POTENTIALLY HARBOR LIFE. PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR GRID GENERATION USING CHIMERA GRID TOOLS (CGT) AND HIGH-FIDELITY COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS USING OVERFLOW TO SUPPORT MODELING AND SIMULATION OF DRAGONFLY’S ROTORCRAFT LANDER AND BACKSHELL FOR PPF AND TPF, AS WELL AS PERFORM POST-PROCESSING TASKS AND COMPARE RESULTS WITH WIND-TUNNEL DATA

MASS- R&D