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This Phase II STTR proposal describes our plan to develop advanced weather surveillance algorithms and calibration techniques for a rapid scanning phased array radar system. During Phase II, we plan to upgrade an exiting rapid scanning weather radar, the MWR-05XP, operated by the Naval Postgraduate School. Several features will be added, including a DC stepper motor for variable rate azimuthal sc ...

The purpose of this Phase II project is to develop computational modeling methods that are able to describe the propagation and interaction of fatigue cracks using the phase-field methodology within the numerical framework of isogeometric analysis (IGA). The resulting computational platform, while focused on fracture and fatigue, will be general, in that any phase-field method can be easily incorp ...

Food production, and in particular animal-derived meat products, are a major source of green-house gases, compounded by the remarkable inefficiency in biomass conversion (grain to dense muscle tissue in meat), along with growing challenges with food safety, quality and nutrition. To address this growing problem, we propose to exploit the emerging field of cellular agriculture (tissue engineering o ...

Hypersonic weapons are being developed to meet the war fighter's requirements of increased weapon effectiveness, decreased time to target, and increased fly out range. Of importance to hypersonic missiles and projectiles, aerothermic heating caused by the friction of air passing the weapon body, is one area of intensive research. At Mach 4, as the hypersonic weapon passes through the lower atmos ...

The Navy is continually developing new technologies to improve warfighting effectiveness. These technologies risk overloading Aircrews cognitive capacities, degrading performance. To mitigate that risk, the Navy needs a system to assess Aircrews physical and cognitive workloads unobtrusively and objectively. To meet these requirements, Charles River Analytics conducted a Phase I effort to design a ...