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Deposit-induced degradation of alloys and ceramic coatings in turbine engines is regarded as one of the core challenges preventing further gains in performance and efficiency. Emerging evidence suggests that synergistic effects in complex (mixed) deposits containing sulfates and silicate mixtures threaten material durability outside of classically-defined temperature ranges of CMAS degradation and ...

Virtual EM is proposing a method to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency in full-wave CEM codes by using high-order curved elements. Virtual EM’s own commercial product VirAntenn™ will provide the CEM setting for both developing and implementing the new capability in Phase I and Phase II, respectively. Using multi-wavelength long cells with high-order basis forms ...

The primary goal of this proposed effort is to develop mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) colloidal quantum dot (CQD)-based focal plane arrays (FPAs) to significantly reduce the cost of MWIR photon imagers. In order to realize this goal, it will first be nec

Dr. Thomas J.R. Hughes, senior advisor at Coreform, first introduced isogeometric analysis (IGA) in 2005. In the years since, it has been shown that smooth splines, the basic building blocks of IGA, allow for the use of relatively coarse meshes for accurate analysis in both finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Research results also show that IGA delivers improved a ...

The Sonalysts Team proposes to investigate, design, and develop a training system leveraging state-of-the art game and agent-based technologies with"TRILOGY,"a Modeling, Simulation, and Training (MST) system capable of three core capabilities: training, rehearsal, and analysis/CONOPS development. Sonalysts will leverage their latest commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) game engine, Simulation Engine I ...

In this Phase I effort, HygraTek will explore a novel anti-ice coating formulation to develop icephobic surfaces for naval ship superstructures, decks, equipment and vehicles on board naval ships, e.g. fighter jets, helicopters etc. HygraTek has recently developed a series of different environmentally safe, non-fluorinated, transparent, icephobic coatings. These coatings display the lowest ice-adh ...

We propose to design and fabricate a solid-state entangled photon source—at the all-important optical communication wavelength of 1550 nm—which has the potential for several orders of magnitude enhancement in efficiency and brightness over state-of-the-art (SOA) sources. The use of entangled photons promises many orders of magnitude enhancements in imaging, sensing, computing, metrology, and c ...

Illinois Rocstar LLC (IR) will develop a robust methodology and software for automated decomposition and hexahedral mesh generation to address the U.S. Navy modeling and simulation (M&S) needs. Extending the Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) CUBIT package and the IR Nuclear Energy Modeling System (NEMoSys) meshing software, the proposed automated hex-meshing software, offered as an extension module ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) together with University of Michigan (UMich) proposes a system to use solar energy to convert water to ultra-high purity compressed hydrogen suitable for PEM fuel cells. We will combine UMich’s high efficiency photocatalytic water splitting approach with PCI’s integrated hydrogen separator/compressor. The proposed effort will confirm the avoidance of external e ...

 For navigation under GPS denied conditions, there is a need for inertial sensors, with better accuracy and smaller volume than the state of the art.  Over the last few years, with support from NASA, MDA, DARPA and AFOSR, and different branches of AFRL, we at Digital Optics Technologies (DOT), in partnership with Northwestern University (NU), have been developing a superluminal laser acceleromet ...