Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc. (CRAFT Tech^®) was formed in 1994 with a nucleus of personnel who had worked together since the early 1980's. Our group possesses substantive experience in the numerical modeling of aero-propulsive flowfields, and, had developed the JANNAF Standard Plume Flowfield and NASP Scramjet Propulsion codes which were utilized by numerous DoD agencies and prime contractors. Our technical staff has expertise in CFD, combustion, turbulence, LES, aeroacoustics, DSMC and multiphase flows. Principal areas of technology application include: rocket and airbreathing propulsion, liquid rocket turbopumps, aerodynamics, jet/plume/wake flowfields, cavity aeroacoustics, and passive and active flow control.  Very close ties with the academic community are maintained via consulting relationships with professors with whom key personnel have worked with for many years.

With over 400 contracts to date, CRAFT Tech^® is a recognized leader in the aero-propulsion community. Various defense contractors, DoD laboratories, and NASA centers have benefited from CRAFT Tech's expertise in analyzing exhaust plume signatures, jet noise reduction concepts, missile vibrations, cavity acoustics attenuation, scramjet combustion, cavitating flows, and numerous other challenging problems that require advanced computational methods. CRAFT Tech also licenses its CFD codes for high-fidelity simulations of challenging applications with complex physics. Please send an email to info@craft-tech.com for more information on licensing our software.

Scope of Activities

1. DESIGN SUPPORT, COMPONENT EVALUATION, AND SYSTEM STUDIES
   • Missile / aircraft / rotorcraft / spacecraft and marine systems
   • Scramjet / rocket / gas turbine propulsion
   • Signatures / Observables - IR / UV / Acoustic
   • Flow Control - active and passive concepts
   • Facility and test support / planning
   
   
   
APPLIED RESEARCH AND MODEL DEVELOPMENT
• Turbulence / LES, CFD / DSMC, Aeroacoustics, Combustion, Multi-Phase Flow, Cavitation / Cryogenics



GROUND AND FLIGHT TEST
• Working with several groups / facilities
• Model design and fabrication
• Experimental support (pre and post-test CFD)
• Validation tool and database (CRAVE)



4. CODE LICENSING and CONSULTING
• A number of software products are available including structured and unstructured flow solvers (CRAFT CFD^® and CRUNCH CFD^®), grid adaptation package (CRISP CFD^®) for multi-element hybrid grids, PDAC DSMC and AEGIS toolkit for continuum/rarified flows, SIG3D radiative transfer code on unstructured grids  for plume IR signatures, RPFM Rocket Plume Code