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This STTR Phase I project is designed to develop a novel process for fabricating a nano-grained ceramic material for infrared windows. The proposed STTR builds upon our previous Phase I (Navy) SBIR experience to minimize risks and maximize the likelihood of success. This proposed work will utilize an innovative method to fabricate nanocrystalline alumina infrared window materials with significantl ...

In this proposal, we seek to extend the capabilities of an existing suite of high order accurate complex geometry, multiphysics software to enable production level applicability to problems of Air Force interest. The focus of this STTR project will be on efficient methods to handle diffusive phenomena, discontinuities (in material and field properties,) and generalized boundary conditions in the d ...

Gas Turbine Engine Control is one of the most complex tasks ever attempted. Currently, a centralized architecture system, labeled, Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) is being widely used. However, new engine performance technologies started to increase the burden of FADEC. This has necessitated the beginning of a new phase of engine control development, Distributed Engine Control syste ...

NextGen is partnering with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to develop tiny energy harvesting modules exploiting variation/fluctuation in ambient temperature with time. Our team is proposing to improve electric power generation by an order of magnitude over state-of-the-art thermoelectric power-converters by using pyro-piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric materials. We are proposing thi ...

This proposal is concerned with the development of a commercial, high order, multi-physics simulation capability based on the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method. The proposed capability will build on the extensive research carried out by the key personnel on high-order DG methods which includes efficient and accurate discretization methods for the the viscous terms, shock capturing algorithms and ...

The purpose of this proposal is to develop an innovative thermal energy harvesting system which is substantially superior to commercially available devices. PowerMEMS believes that wireless technology is revolutionizing the industrial instrumentation world, but the idea of periodically replacing batteries in thousands of wireless devices is unacceptable. Therefore, the key to developing a fully a ...

We propose the development of a general software infrastructure for simplifying the integration of computer-game software with cognitive modeling tools. The software is designed to meet the requirements of two state-of-art cognitive models, one focused on spatial reasoning, the other on visual imagery. The approach extracts visual scene information from a computer game, represents it in a common ...

Recent interest in development of small satellites in the 1-100kg size class for a variety of military, research and commercial missions has highlighted the critical need for high performance, light-weight micro-thrusters and associated sub-system components such as valves, regulators, tanks and power sources. Ventions proposes to work with MIT to fulfill this critically emerging need by examining ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop and validate a methodology for obtaining accurate, reliable and transferable force fields for a variety of ionic liquids (ILs) including those designed for lubrication, gas generation, energy storage and as energetic materials. The methodology involves development of a hierarchy of force fields through reduction of degrees of freedom in a statistical me ...

Because of rising demand for human analysts and more efficient processing of increasingly large and challenging amounts of intelligence, human limitations on mental workload, cognitive fatigue, and attentionor task engagement, need to be accurately monitored in real-time in order to provide sensitive detection of impaired cognitive states. It is a challenge to continuously monitor these cognitive ...