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.

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, and have also performed work supporting the J-2X.

A 2010 success story describing advances made by CRAFT Tech in developing and applying fluid dynamic modeling tools for NASA rocket propulsion was published by NASA in the NASA Spinoff annual premier publication. This article summarizes some of the work we have performed for both the Marshall and Stennis NASA centers.

A recently listed success story on weapons bay technology research completed by CRAFT Tech and NAVAIR on the Small Business Innovation can be found on the research site at navysbir.com. 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.