SBIR/STTR Research Award
Plasma Enhanced Aerodynamic Control (PEAC) for Improved Rotorcraft Performance
Award amount
$99,959Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- INNOVATIVE TECH APPLICATIONS LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-10-26
- Contract end date
- 2010-11-25
- UEI
- ENJSTAA9R2V5
- Solicitation number
- 2009.2
- Topic code
- N092-144
Research abstract
Innovative Technology Applications Company (ITAC), LLC, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame (ND), propose to develop an advanced plasma-enhanced aerodynamic control (PEAC) technology to significantly enhance the performance of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, in particular the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor vehicle. Innovative open- and closed-loop PEAC concepts will be designed to increase lift and cruise efficiency, and reduce drag and aerodynamic download during hover of the V-22 tiltrotor vehicle. The program will develop concepts based on a pending patent by Bell Helicopters using University of Notre Dame’s SDBD plasma actuators. In addition to wind tunnel demonstrations of aerodynamic benefits on the V-22 vehicle geometry, a preliminary assessment of system requirements will be conducted, and a method for real-time actuator health monitoring will be developed and tested as part of laboratory experiments. The program will emphasize readying the PEAC technology for flight tests.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Plasma Actuation for Turbulent Skin Friction Drag Reduction on Wing Sections
- Plasma Flow Control for Drag Reduction
- Plasma Flow Control for Drag Reduction
- Reduced-Order Model for the Prediction of Supersonic Aircraft Jet Noise
- Adjoint-Based Shape Optimization for Noise Reduction
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Plasma Enhanced Aerodynamics and Actuator Health Monitoring for Aerospace Applications
- Enhanced Dielectric Barrier Discharge Devices for Active Control of Flow Separation
- Affordable Rotorcraft Air Vehicle Drag Reduction for Cruise Efficiency and Enhanced Lift Using Plasma Flow Control
Research funding history
33 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2017). Reported award amounts total $9,590,194. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration