CRAFT Tech News

Technology for modeling cryogenic real fluid flow and related multi-phase phenomena such as cavitation has been developed for NASA, under Phase II and Phase III SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) funding. This technology has been used to simulate cavitating performance of novel cryogenic inducers developed under Next Generation Launch Technology (NGLT) program. To learn more about this innovation success story, please go to NASA SBIR Success Stories. Under a Phase III technology success funded by NASA, CRAFT Tech established a solid foundation of computational tools that directly impacted the analysis in designing the complex A-3, steam ejector train for the Ares V cargo launch vehicle to Mars.

Scientists at CRAFT Tech have also been involved in improving turbopumps that power the space shuttle main engine (SSME), and Expendable Launch Vehicles (ELVs), which propel rockets into space.

A recently listed success story on research completed by CRAFT Tech and NAVAIR on the Small Business Innovation can be found on the research site at navysbir.com. Information about this weapons bay technology can be seen at the Department of the Navy Success Stories. Under this Phase II SBIR, CRAFT Tech developed a unified Hybrid RANS-LES turbulence modeling framework that enables the simulation of large scale problems with very high fidelity. This technology has since been applied (under Air Force funding) to the development of a Control system for the attenuation of aeroacoustic loading in military aircraft weapons bays.