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Aircrafts operated by the US Navy/Marine Corps have to endure harsh environmental conditions, with erosion from Foreign Object Debris such as sand particles being a prime concern. The aeroengines ingest loose sand, which impinges on the engine components and damages the metal, ceramic, and composite materials. Erosion phenomena are complicated due to the wide operating space but can be efficiently ...

The program will be dedicated to a systematic study on QCL optical damage, long term reliability, and increase in damage threshold for high power QCLs. At the end of Phase II, we will have developed and fully validated an instantaneous QCL COD model and a model for QCL long-term degradation under full driving conditions. The two models covering a broad spectral region will provide a scientific b ...

Under a Phase II effort, CS and Purdue will improve and validate the Asymmetric Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (APMSM) and Trapped Flux Coreless Machine (TFCM) design concepts developed in Phase I through development, fabrication, and testing of a hardware prototype of both technologies. The CS laboratory in Portland, Oregon and the Purdue University laboratories in West Lafayette, Indiana h ...

To address the U.S. Navy need for smaller lighter weight optics in manned and unmanned aircraft, and to speed up optic procurement, in this program, inorganic freeform gradient-index (GRIN) optics are being developed that are operational in the visible and thermal infrared spectral ranges. These optics are fabricated using inkjet-deposition-based additive-manufacturing to integrate nanocomposite f ...

One important challenge for the reliable prediction of liquid fuel effects on the combustion in aviation combustors and augmentors is the accurate modeling of underlying physical processes, involving the evaporation of fuels, preferential vaporization, scalar mixing and ignition. LES methodologies are required to accurately capture these transient and inherently unsteady combustion processes. In t ...

Through existing STTR N16A-T012, Continuous Solutions (CS) and Purdue University are developing a product line which consists of Common Mode (CM) current-mitigating Bus-Bar Based Common Mode Inductors (B3CMI) and AC Common Mode Shorting Networks (ACSN). These products are installed on the DC (B3CMI) or AC (ACSN) interfaces of power converters. The DC-rail-inline B3CMI adds significant CM impedance ...

Ultra-fast measurements of the frequency of a microwave transmission is a vital task for many military applications including interception and jamming of signals used in communications, radar detection and remote control of weapons. The rapid tracking of adversarial frequency-agile microwave signals allows one to swiftly identify threats, such as radar-guided anti-tank missiles, and undertake appr ...

Today’s soldiers and vehicles are equipped with sensors and devices that are ‘connected’ through boards, processors/chips, transceivers, and micro mechanical systems.  To design, fabricate and embed sensors and devices on the warfighter and to connect them efficiently is going to require multiple advanced manufacturing technologies: Subtractive Manufacturing (CNC), Additive Manufacturing (A ...

This proposed work is intended to demonstrate the innovative SOFC Power Generator explored in the Phase I SBIR work and introduce novel technologies from our Research Partner to further reduce system weight and increase system lifetimes. The Phase II development will have four main Objectives (Optimization, Design, Test, and Deliver) and three core areas of work (SOFC Stack, Housing & Suspension, ...

Systems Visions LLC (dba SYVI) and its partners Auburn University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) propose “Hybrid Integration of Photonics and Cryogenic Electronics with Magnetic Shielding (HIPCEMS)”, an effort to develop a scalable heterogeneous packaging plan that results in extreme energy efficiency information transfer at high data rates and low bit error rate of digit ...