SBIR/STTR Research Award
Transient plasma ignition for high repetition rate pulse detonation engines
Award amount
$70,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- NumerEx
- Proposal award date
- 2007-06-28
- Contract end date
- 2008-04-28
- UEI
- HDWELFLZN3P9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N07-T033
Research abstract
Experimental and simulation techniques will be used to advance a novel class of pulse detonation engines (PDE) initiators based on transient plasma ignition. By optimizing the interaction of pulsed power and kinetic plasma chemistry, this effort will lead to PDE ignitors that can operate under higher repetition rates and increased fuel flow rates in realistic multiple barrel geometry. This will provide advanced, compact, and robust ignitors, a critical component to realizing the intrinsic high efficiency and flexibility of pulse detonation engines for highly supersonic transport.
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 Simulation from Two-Fluid to MHD in Complex Geometry Using Local Relaxation
- High-Power Microwave Arrays Based on Phase Locked Magnetrons
- A Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Capability for Liner Compression of Field Reversed Configurations
- Gigawatt Nonlinear Transmission Lines (GW-NLTL)
- Integration of Transient plasma ignition systems into high repetition rate, multi-barrel pulse detonation engines
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
23 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1993–2012). Reported award amounts total $4,565,494. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation